Garda Watch

03/10/2023

DPP calls no case for charges against a number of Gardai in Kilkenny but the incident will remain on record.!

The DPP has returned no charges to be brought against Gardai in Kilkenny and Thomastown Garda station following a significant case where a individual was assaulted on his parents private property and later bundled into a Garda Car.

A man in his 30s filed a complaint against four Gardai for assault causing harm and unlawful abduction to the Garda Commissioner and Gardai Ombudsman Commission last year.

It is understood that the victim had parked his car in his parents drive way and had fallen asleep. The vehicle was parked on private property but a light was left on. The vehicle was parked beside the home in a drive way over 4 metres from the public road when Gardai entered the vehicle and dragged the male from the vehicle as he was sleeping.

The victim responded in fear for his safety pushing and calling for nearby help as he was abruptly awoken. Members of kilkenny Gardai and Thomastown struck and detained the individual using excessive force and deployment of batons.

The incident was captured on nearby cctv. CCTV captured the individual asleep in his car for over a hour before Gardai passed by. Gardai again passed by and decided to enter the private area.

One Garda Síochána sergeant from kilkenny Gardai gave evidence to GSOC that the individual concerned was infact un justly assaulted by members of Gardai on the night in question and that he was unlawfully detained also.

No charges where brought against the victim and a file was sent to the DPP.

The DPP Directed that no charges be brought against two members of the Gardai for assault causing harm and unlawful abduction.

It is understood that further legal advice has been sought and the DPP decision has been appealed by the victim and the victims family

07/08/2023

28/07/2023

Zuni Kilkenny holds top judicial and high ranking Gardai get together after the local courts closes it doors for summer recess.

On the menu, fair and impartial Justice! as they all clap each others backs as they break for summer. Amongst the tables waiting for a round of fine wines 🍷 and drinks are local solicitors and members of the Gardai all waiting to raise a glass to the local Judge.

25/06/2023

A high-ranking officer in the south of the country has been appointed to investigate whether a garda acquitted of the historical sexual abuse of a child over 40 years ago was a victim of a miscarriage of justice by An Garda Síochána.

22/06/2023

Hell bent on fair and impartial Justice. Garda informant revealed.

Allegations put forward to a hearing that a Garda informant escaped serious charges due to his ongoing contact with a senior member of the Gardai resulted in a pro fix of exchanges between him and another individual for exchanges of operational information in a local town regarding drugs. slammed as nonsense by Garda inspector when confronted by defendant.

Garda watch has learned that a individual exchanged more that 9 operations including offences of the drugs acts to get immunity of charges against him. The individual concerned is know well to Gardai and exchanged information in a bid to have serious charges dropped against him.
Although this information may have helped in the long battle of substance abuse, sale and supply.
No person should be held above the law. This shows us that the system is not fair and impartial.

Facing charges of assault, domestic abuse, domestic volience, perjury ,corrosive control, assault of a minor, theft, threats to kill.

This is what the state would allow walk free for information!

22/05/2023

FACING TRIAL | Garda sergeant charged with 18 counts of sharing private information from Pulse system

GARDA sergeant has been charged with multiple counts of breaking data protection laws by disclosing private information on individuals from the Pulse computer system.
Garda Sergeant Thomas Bowe, 51, of Naas Garda station, in Co. Kildare, appeared before Judge Treasa Kelly at Dublin District Court today accused of 21 offences.

He faces 18 counts under section 145 of the Data Protection Act. The charges are allegations of disclosing personal details on various individuals on the Pulse system without authorisation at Naas Garda station on various dates in 2019 and 2020.

He also has three charges for providing false or misleading information in passport applications at the Irish Passport Service in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, in September 2017, from September 13, 2017 to June 12, 2019, and in January 2020. They are contrary to the Passports Act.

It follows an investigation gardai attached to the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation (NBCI).

Garda Superintendent Cormac Brennan told the court that the accused was arrested at 9.39 am on Friday and charged at Kilmainham station in Dublin. The judge heard he replied, “Not guilty,” and “Why did you take so long to bring those charges before the court?”.

There was no objection to bail subject to conditions, including an order to refrain from contacting several individuals whose names were on a list handed into court but not read out.

Defence solicitor Damien Coffey said his client consented to the condition.

Judge Kelly heard the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has directed a trial on indictment in the Circuit Court. There was no objection to his bail, which was set in his bond of €500.

16/05/2023

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/gardai-arrested-over-probe-alleged-29508457?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Exclusive: The investigation is examining claims that rogue officers attached to a Garda unit were deliberately targeting foreign delivery drivers in Dublin.

16/05/2023

Kilkenny native. A man well known to Gardai has escaped over 6 criminal charges in exchange for information to Gardai in the local area.

Charges relating to assault on a woman and abusive threatening behaviour towards children where not sent to the DPP in exchange for valuable narcotics information garda watch has learned. The local superintendent at Kilkenny An Garda Síochána directed that no charges be brought against Mr Phelan kilkenny City in respect to a number of incidents that took place.

Garda Watch has learned that a significant complaint along with CCTV and other evidence is before GSOC and a letter from the victim of assault has been forwarded to the Garda Commissioner outlining the evidence and request to have the matter thoroughly investigated.

It is also understood that a member of An Garda Síochána had approached the victims solicitor and informed her of the actions taken by the superintendents office

16/05/2023

A garda who tortured and terrorised a woman ill with cancer has been sentenced to three-and-a-quarter-years in prison.

Paul Moody, who was stationed at Irishtown Garda Station in Dublin, pleaded guilty to a charge of coercive control of the woman.

Nineteen other charges, including assault, theft, criminal damage and a threat to kill the woman, were taken into account.

An Garda Síochána has confirmed this evening that Moody is no longer a member of the force.

The 42-year-old garda beat, kicked, punched and choked the woman over a two-and-a-half-year period.

He also sent her over 31,000 threatening, abusive, degrading and demeaning texts and phone communications, told her he hoped she would "die of cancer" and "die in pain" and threatened to kill her.

Unbeknownst to her he also took pictures of her naked and threatened to circulate them online.

He stole her cancer medication and the woman told the court she could not afford to replace it.

He turned up at a hospital she was in and told her he only came to watch her "bleed to death".

The hospital had the garda removed and barred him from returning.

Judge Martin Nolan said today Moody was a "bully" who made the victim's life "hell".

He harassed her hugely and abused his position in An Garda Síochána to get information. He said Moody engaged in a catalogue of vile and humiliating criminal behaviour.

The judge said it was hard to imagine why he did it, but he did. He said he had disgraced himself and, to some degree, his colleagues in An Garda Síochána.Gardaí have praised the "immense courage and resilience" of Nicola, the victim of the garda.

Detective Inspector Cormac Brennan said she could be proud of her personal courage and she has shown other victims that when an abusive partner says no one will believe you, they are wrong.

He said that coercive control is about power, about isolating a partner and breaking that person down.

It is, he said, a heinous, degrading reign of control and overwhelming. He also said that the power is even more overwhelming if the abuser holds a position or profession of respect in the community as in this case a garda.

Gardaí also appealed to anyone else in an abusive relationship to "please take that first step" and speak to someone.

"You have done nothing wrong," he said, "you do not need to accept it, you are not alone, please take that first step, you will be believed."

He also said the gardaí are committed to tackling abuse and it does not matter who the abuser is.

11/05/2023

GSOC Investigates.

A female Garda is under investigation for allegedly harassing the partner of another officer – who has himself been suspended on suspicion of paying a criminal to attack her house.

“It is absolutely crazy what is going on,” one source said last night. “The whole station is gobsmacked by it.”

The Irish Mirror can reveal that the female officer is alleged to have inappropriately accessed the force’s internal computer system to find her love rival’s phone number – and then send her abusive messages and voicemails

11/05/2023

GAA star awarded 505,000 after brutal Garda assault.

10/05/2023

John Barrett gave protected disclosures and disclosures related to Sgt McCabe who was brutally persecuted by high ranking Gardai for highlighting critical errors within the policing system and penalty point scandal!

10/05/2023

solicitors looking for more taxpayer's money so they can give more money to likes of this solicitor?

DPP's office is run by TD's relatives and cronies and should be disbanded and only people fit for the position should be running it.

1.6 million to one solicitor for free legal aid fees.

10/05/2023

The entire justice department is a disgrace, , GSOC, solicitors, & IPS
All top positions are run by politically appointed relatives & cronies who cannot be trusted

criticised by everyone & needs 2 be disbanded


https://thejournal.ie/readme/policing-legislation-ireland-6062750-May2023/?

10/05/2023

Kilkenny Gardai waded corruption.

A copy of a report made to the An Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission is been sought and legal action sought in the High Court by way of judicial review, concerning the misconduct and allegations of Gardai handling a significant case where one man and woman had been assaulted by a suspected Gardai informant who escaped all charges! It is alleged that local Gardai in kilkenny put weight on the DPP to prosecute the injured parties and not the offender, as he was a valuable Gardai informant.

More to follow.

10/05/2023

Waterford,Kilkenny,Carlow, Tipp Gardai. Deliberately targeting young drivers!!! Since the lifting of covid restrictions a report found that Gardai time raised significantly on our roads. With a significant advancement in mobile technology Gardai particularly in carlow & Kilkenny have ramped up fears among students and younger people travelling to work while there is over 12,000 people awaiting driving tests it is reported that very little if any discretion is given to students or work goers. While motorists are more concerned about the rise in un insured drivers and un documented vehicles in Ireland.

11/04/2023

2 members of An Garda Síochána Kilkenny District under investigation for alleged misconduct and failed to disclose drugs find in a house search in kilkenny City last year.

03/04/2023

Over the next weeks we are going to highlight serious abuses of An Gardai powers and abuses of individuals rights. From home invasions to repeated Garda misconduct
In all ranks!

03/04/2023

14 allegations of sexual assault made against Gardai in 2022. Complaints made to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman.

03/04/2023

Over 1,800 official complaints were made against Gardaí to their watchdog last year.

According to Freedom of Information figures obtained by Newstalk, there were 14 allegations of sexual offences by Gardaí.

Provisional figures show the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) received 1,826 complaints in 2022.

03/04/2023

THE GARDA WATCHDOG has recorded a marked increase in complaint investigations from the general public.

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) annual report showed that last year the body dealt with 2,189 complaints in 2021, containing 3,760 allegations – that represents a 12% increase compared to 2020. Of those complaints 61% were ruled admissible.

There has also been an increase of 40% in referrals made to it by An Garda Síochána following incidents involving death or serious harm.

GSOC received 59 referrals under this category in 2021, compared with 43 in 2020, and 40 in 2019. Thirty-four of the referrals received in 2021 related to fatalities.

Investigators also recorded an increase of 21% in the amounts of cases they were able to close in 2021 compare to previous years – by year end they still had 852 cases still open.

Disciplinary breaches included: failure to investigate allegations of abuse; discreditable conduct; failures in securing evidence; abuse of authority.

In 2021, GSOC made 60 findings of a breach of discipline by members of An Garda Síochána, resulting in the imposition of sanctions by the Garda Commissioner.

Five criminal cases were decided in court in 2021, involving charges of sexual assault, assault and theft. The DPP directed no prosecution in 11 cases.

02/04/2023

While numbers rise within GSOC complaints against ranks in the Gardai, Gardai take to media and social media platforms in efforts to try convince the public they are a different force!. Engaging with the community and fair policing.

Stay informed. More information to follow.

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In the next few days this page will highlight many cases. And will be full operational.