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Highlighting Police Corruption

category dublin | crime and justice | opinion/analysis author Monday October 24, 2005 01:15author by MMcD Report this post to the editors

With the pressure on the Minister for Injustice McDowell and the Government to tackle the Garda corruption being constantly exposed, an opportunity exists for all those affected by police harassment to push for a genuine independent complaints body. Both political activists and ordinary people, working to expose Garda brutality can have an effect.

Highlighting Police Corruption

We can see from the news that the Minister for Justice (?) McDowell has finally set up what he calls an “Independent Garda Ombudsman Commission”, that both he and the Government are under pressure to address the growing number of examples of Garda corruption being exposed lately. The McBrearty’s, the Frank Shortt’s case, the Rossiter case etc…. are all piling on the pressure for a genuine independent complaints body similar to Nuala O’Lone’s office in the 6 Counties. McDowell and the Government are hoping that this new commission will provide a smokescreen to hide the fact that nothing is really being done to tackle Garda corruption.

The first disappointment about the new body was that, contrary to it’s independent title, it was actually handpicked by the Government. The three appointees, Justice Kevin Haugh, Carmel Foley and Conor Brady, all have close ties to the legal establishment. Foley and Brady have family members who were Guards while Haugh is a senior judge. The Commission doesn’t have retrospective powers of investigation and there are other limitations in comparison to O’Lone’s powers. This opportunity to serious tackle the culture of corruption within the Gardai appears to have been lost.

Frank McBrearty is currently trying to set up an anti corruption campaign to highlight the injustices people have suffered at the hands of the Garda or the legal profession. He has organised a public meeting in the Mansion House in November which should get some media attention on this subject. Unfortunately Frank and the people surrounding him probably don’t have the ability to create something permanent but the opportunity afforded by the publicity surrounding the Mansion House meeting should be used by people trying to focus attention on Garda abuse of their powers.

The family of twenty year old Terence Wheelock are campaigning for an independent public inquiry into the death of Terence after a beating in Garda custody. The family have organised a vigil outside Store Street Garda station on Saturday 29th October. Terence was left in a coma after being arrested and held in custody in Store Street. He died 3 months later. There are a huge amount of unanswered questions about the time he spent in custody. It’s worth reading the report in the Village magazine –
http://www.villagemagazine.ie/article.asp?sid=1&sud=41&aid=459

The above two events give people genuinely interested in making the Garda accountable an opportunity to get involved in doing something positive about Garda corruption. It is a good opportunity for those who where involved in the Reclaim the Streets demo which was attacked by the Gardai on May Day 2002 to link in with a community campaign highlighting police brutality. Last Tuesday police attacked people protesting against the mass deportation of immigrants. Saturday’s vigil provides a focus for all victims of police harassment. If all those affected by police abuse unite, political people and ordinary people, the pressure already on McDowell and the Government, can be intensified.

Support the Wheelock family, meet at Our Lady of Lourdes church in Sean Mc Dermott Street at 2pm. March to Store Street Garda station.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   "all changed utterly"     hmmmm    Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:17 
   Never forget     Finnymick    Mon Oct 24, 2005 13:51 
   RTS Support Group     @ndypandy    Tue Oct 25, 2005 13:11 
   EUROPA DANGER LE NAZISME DE RETOUR_     AUSCHWITZ 2_    Thu Oct 11, 2007 04:19 
   garda corruption     susanomahoney@live.ie    Sat Nov 14, 2009 22:23 
   Help / Assistance     Wayne Flanagan Tobin    Sun Nov 15, 2009 02:59 
   Sunday Tribune Report     Rusty    Thu May 13, 2010 11:53 
   commisions and ghettos     james citizen    Sun Jul 18, 2010 13:11 
   Innocent     Al    Thu Jul 22, 2010 22:33 
 10   Legal profession     Mags & Pegs    Fri Dec 09, 2011 00:14 
 11   what corruption     Joe & Paddy    Sun Dec 11, 2011 14:52 
 12   what     Vincent    Tue Dec 13, 2011 06:31 
 13   I dont believe it;     Larry    Tue Dec 13, 2011 17:00 


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