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A garda allocated to detective duties, up to and including the rank of chief superintendent, is a detective and the word detective (Irish: Bleachtaire) is prefixed to their rank (e.g. detective sergeant, bleachtaire sáirsint). The detective moniker is not a rank but rather a role identification, a detective Garda and a Garda are the same rank.
The Garda Síochána are responsible for national and local policing in Ireland. The service is headed by the Garda Commissioner who is appointed by the Government of Ireland. Its headquarters are located in Phoenix Park in Dublin. The Garda Síochána Reserve is the volunteer reserve section of the Gardaí. Its purpose is to supplement the ...
Ranks of the Garda Síochána Rank Commissioner Deputy commissioner Assistant commissioner Surgeon Chief superintendent Superintendent Inspector Sergeant Garda Garda reserve Student Student reserve Irish name Coimisinéir: Leas Choimisinéir: Cúntóir-Choimisinéir: Máinlia: Ard-Cheannfort: Ceannfort: Cigire: Sáirsint: Garda Ionaid: Mac ...
Map of garda divisions. Some areas of An Garda Síochána have been split into modified divisions and districts since the pilot of the new Garda Operating Model came into effect on Monday, 7 October 2019. [1] The rollout started with Galway, Cork City, Dublin South Central, Meath/Westmeath and Limerick and has continued since March 2020. [2]
The Garda National Roads Policing Bureau (GNRPB) (Irish: Biúró Náisiúnta an Gharda Síochána um Póilíniú Bóithre) [1] is the roads policing unit of the Garda Síochána. Prior to 2018, it was known as the Garda Traffic Corps ( Irish : Cór Tráchta an Gharda Síochána ).
The Civic Guard was formed by the Provisional Government in February 1922 to take over the responsibility of policing the fledgling Irish Free State.. The Garda Síochána (Temporary Provisions) Act 1923 enacted after the creation of the Irish Free State on 8 August 1923, [4] provided for the creation of "a force of police to be called and known as 'The Garda Síochána ' ".
The Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (DOCB or GNDOCB) is a specialist national unit within the Garda Síochána, Ireland's national police service, responsible for proactively targeting and investigating drug trafficking and serious organised crime both within Ireland and outside the jurisdiction. [1]
Irish law prohibits members of the Garda Siochana from joining trade unions because of a view from Government that police industrial action would pose a risk to public safety. The AGSI is a 1978 reconstitution of a Representative Body for Inspectors, Station Sergeants and Sergeants (RBISS) set up under 1962 regulations.