Operation Twin Track which is taking place on the DART, Luas, and eight inter-city rail routes throughout the country began at 3pm this afternoon and continues until 11pm this evening.
Dervla Brophy, Director of Communications with Transdev Ireland, said young children were the main cause of problems on its services during the summer period. Irish Rail says that in the past 12 months they have seen a 20% reduction in serious anti-social behaviour on its network due to increased security and co-operation with gardaí.
"Outside of these very high profile days we have more patrols on board than ever before. We have gardaí, for instance where we have very busy beach days, working with our teams on the platforms, on the trains, right across areas where we have seen incidents before.
Isn't this just policing ....... their job!
This is like something from father Ted. Its completely standard for police to carry out policing like this all over Europe, yet heres the Irish Gards making it a publicity stunt as if its some amazing achievement? This is the bare minimum & should just be done without any of this
We need transport police end of story for Christ sake.
A reactionary populist fig leaf that will be history in a few weeks time. Well done GardaTraffic
Suit them better to sort out the scum that entering our ports
Welcome but should not be considered a 'special operation' needs to be a regular patrol. Transport staff and commuters have been asking for proper policing on public transport for years.
This shouldn’t be news. This should be standard
Pathetic, this will make no difference whatsoever.
This is just sad and ridiculous. Something that should be done every single day at all time without any announcement as this is garda job, but they just announced anyway as the best idea ever. Operation twin track, lets see how many days will last
Is it just today?
Every one of these Gardai will have Covid in a week.
Surprised they are out at all, it's raining
Ill take the Car,,, Fook this BS
Why is this news? This should be the norm everyday, including policing the roads around the country
Heads up people: Helen McEntee is a law and order minister 😉
How long will that last We need a dedicated transport unit..
Gardai new to have any authority first - right now the guys responsible for anti-social behavior don't give a fuck about police - cause they are youth and in this country they are allowed to do anything.
It’s all photo shite. Wait till the “look at us “ stuff wears off the scumbags will be back kicking young ones under trains
Needs to be every day,not a PR stunt.
LOL these fucking signs, What a waste of effort, Money and Materials. Forgotten about in a day or two
PR
What excatly is the point to this? It should be a given that the police are constantly protecting the public !! On a daily basis 🤷♀️
You have a better chance of seeing the Loch Ness monster in the city centre after 7 pm than you have of seeing a Garda . Well done Drew Harris and Helen McEntee
Why isn’t there a Irish Transport Police Division?
One day
It’s a start
What a stupid report!!! 3pm- 11pm? Most of that was wasted taking pictures and acting the big shots
Are gardaí replaced when they are on parental leave ,maternity leave etc…Are half the gardaí female ,if so many many must be on maternity leave at any one timeAre femal gardaí restricted to office work if they are pregnant? Just wondering as a guard on the beat is a rare sight
Big push to get lifts working this weekend!!!!! Wonder why? 🤫
Why are these companies not using their own security service ? This is just more state control.
What’s the point? Even if they arrest someone for anti social behaviour, the little scrotes will be let off by the judges, it’s a waste of their time even making arrests.
most Gardai are useless.
They not need to be getting involved just their presence would be enough to deter anti social behaviour
Throughout the country? Sure we have no railways up here in donegal
Should be nothing special about it!
SamanthaLibreri Horse = Bolted
With a film crew.
Great are they gonna do this every week? Take a stab at the red line on a friday and Drogheda/Dundalk trains sort out the fucking teenagers. Give luas security staff the power to arrest, the little shits know they can get away with anything because they can.
Form a new garda transit dept like newyork police transit
Anything that highlights appalling thuggery on Public Transport is welcome, but is announcing 'blitz' not akin to telling Bank robber that target Bank has a squad of Gardaì inside? Time to bite bullet & establish a Dedicated Garda Public Transport Division
Don’t get this! So Garda are patrolling trains , what happens when the scum bags get of trains, even less Garda on the street. We need more Garda and heavier sentences
There should be transport police present on public transport all the time. I've seen vicious assaults take place on CIE buses. The current government are useless. They've had 12 years to fix the problems in this country and they've failed. Time for a change. WeWantAnElection
It is time for a dedicated properly resourced and manned Transport Police. This type of reactive policing by the GS is a short term solution to a long term problem.
Do ye not think that he Gardai have enough to be at it should be the rail company that should do that
ah yes anti social behaviour finishes at 11pm this weekend...just like the an garda presence on the trains.
The cops are useless. Anytime you need one there's never one around.
About 10 years too late. The absolute basics of government and gardai should be public / transport safety. Look at the physical state of gardai there..short, fat, no physical presence. The howeyas causing chaos know contracted security have zero powers.
This is very welcome and should become a more regular thing on board our Public Transport. As I have said before, It would be great to see a special unit of gardainfo set up for patrolling our Transport, similar to the Transport Police in the UK.
why was it not used last week in Bray..?
Has to be a pss take, any chance they will do this out of hours, PR stunt straight from the Varadkar, FG hand book. 🥴
McEntee advised by handlers to do PR photo op on theme 'McEntee believes in law and order'.
For how long? A week, two weeks....?
Regularly has much more impact than special operations. This is just PR.
Temporary and for show like most things they do.
I thank God for not going back to Ireland.
You should try the glider services up north lol
That's because they have stellar parents.
Ahhhh the young
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