Dont think so. Our public transport network is too underdeveloped to warrant one.
Dont think so. Our public transport network is too underdeveloped to warrant one.
Agreed, so -Ok this thread needs some figures ...
I think that the only way it could work would be to have a police service separate to the Gardai but with the same powers and which is funded by the transport companies.
If they were part of the Gardai, they would be siphoned off to supplement regular policing so having a separate unit would ensure they are used for public transport use only.
And if they were funded by the railway company they could get involved with the likes of checking tickets without people complaining about tax payers' money being used for trivial matters.
But I don't think that this model could work beyond the cities given the low density of public transport in Ireland.
The British Transport Police model seems to work well in London but the UK police are used to having more than one force.
I don't think its warranted to be honest. I don't see that a private company would be in any better position to respond than gardai. If we don't have enough officers to respond in good time to all calls, then we need more guards, not a quasi-police force.
A private company whose employees have the same rights as gardai? That makes me very very uncomfortable as an idea!
I don't think its warranted to be honest. I don't see that a private company would be in any better position to respond than gardai. If we don't have enough officers to respond in good time to all calls, then we need more guards, not a quasi-police force.
Perhaps a better suggestion would be regular Gardai but limited to a specific role - transport police with the transport companies making a contribution to the costs of that department.
I wouldn't call it a private company, just as CIE is not a private company. It would be given its powers by the state and the police officers.
It would only have the same rights as Gardai in certain circumstances.
In Dublin there is already the Gardai, Dublin Airport Police, Dublin Harbour Police and the Military Police, each of which have powers greater than private security in their own spheres of operation and none of which could be described as a private company.
Good point, but with the likes of Dublin Bus letting drivers go, putting new buses in garages and cutting routes (more of which coming soon BTW), I don't imagine they'd be contributing much to a transport police force.
And I can't help feeling its just not warranted. And I speak as the wife of a Bus driver who works night shifts and so on.
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