Steve Collins has praised anti gangland laws which he maintains transformed Limerick City! The Criminal Justice Amendment Act allows certain individuals to be brought before a non jury Special Criminal Court and directives on taking part in organised crime. It has been extended for another year.
I don't see a transformation?!?!? If anything I think matters in general have escalated....
"There's been a huge push of in-your-face policing by the gardai and gangs are starting to break up, and it's all down to the fact they have these powers now," he said.
I still don't see it,??!?
"These are strong laws and they are going to prove to be the turning point in this gangland problem."
Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said 69 people have been arrested under the provisions since its introduction.
"Let me be blunt about it - the thugs involved in organised crime are desperate people who will stop at nothing to avoid being brought to account for their crimes," Dermot Ahern
Well that's true, but like, what have they done about it in Limerick? nothing....
"Violence and intimidation are a way of life for these people and we have a duty to make sure that the criminal justice system can hold sway over them"
Like many others, I believe that if they enforced laws already in existence it would be a start!!!
Steve Collins insisted gangland bosses around Limerick have been rounded up as a direct result of the legislation.
I still don't see it!!!!
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I feel sorry for Steve Collins. He is just a sheep for the Gardai. He is just being used to try make a point.
ReplyDelete"A CASE has yet to be brought before the Special Criminal Court under legislation enacted a year ago to combat gangland crime, an Oireachtas committee has been told"
ReplyDeleteNo gang case taken in special criminal court
from today's Irish Times.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0625/1224273271354.html
Limerick has turned into a right scumbag infected shithole. You can spot the knackers a mile off. It's not safe to walk down the street in broad daylight anymore and the local Gardai are doing fuck all about it. I'm originally from Limerick, but living up the country now. It's worse the situation is getting in Limerick and no one speaks up about it. Limerick people just get on their high horse when it's referred to as stab city. Fachna Murphy is waste of space and so is Dermot Ahern, turning a blind eye to what's actually going on. Clean up the Garda Siochana first off, get some Gardai with balls for a change, then get rid of the bent corrupt ones and clean up the streets of Limerick! It's time to stop brushing everything under the carpet in the hope that it will go away.
ReplyDeleteEddie, HERE HERE! you are 100% right. People in this city will believe any shite that the newspapers and garda throw at them. The senior gardas are always trying to play the bad situation down and use the local newspaper to feed that to people.
ReplyDeleteheadline on live95fm this morning.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.live95fm.ie/news/news-item/gardai-urge-people-to-report-crimes-in-county-limerick-as-soon-as-possible/463d68c4-e0a8-4072-ae0a-ef1522c9018b
Gardai in County Limerick say their investigations are sometimes hampered because people delay reporting crimes.
Delay in reporting crimes? I know someone a victim of crime, and it was reported straight away, but the Gardai were too busy that day to send someone out. They never followed up on it. Lazy shower of b*?**stards!