The Gazette 1987

GAZETT INCORPORATE D LAWSOCIETY OF IRELAND Vol. 81 No. 4May 1987 Viewpoint

APRIL 1987

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Service out of Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in Tort Cases Solicitors and Barristers Joint Conference

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C. To provide guidance and assist- ance: (i) In helping young people to achieve social maturity; (ii) In cases of tragedy, or family and/or other personal crises. It would be difficult to argue that our society has not come to expect its police force to perform most, if not all, of these functions. It is obvious that only the most rigorous selection and training of recruits can lead to the establishment of a police force which can attempt to provide all those functions for our society. The Report sees a neepl to com- pletely revamp the recruitment pro- cess to meet the twin goals of efficiency and effectiveness. The screening out at an early stage of candidates who are clearly not suited for recruitment to the force is an aim that should be urgently pursued. The introduction of psy- chological and aptitude testing as well as stringent medical tests at an early stage of the recruitment process should lead firstly to a reduction in the number of those who proceed on to the final selec- tion process and, secondly, to an improvement in the standard of those ultimately who are accepted as recruits into the force. The recommendations that during the " on the beat" segments of the training programme that recruits should be attached to tutor gardai and that each division should have training sergeants whose principal function would be to monitor the effectiveness of the training pro- gramme for recruits in their division coupled with the fact that the recruit should not in future be regarded as part of the normal strength of a garda division (and therefore liable to be used to per- form any of the normal functions of a garda) until after his second " on (Contd. on p.109)

Garda Training Report It is to be hoped that the current restrictions on public sector spend- ing will not result in delay in im- plementing the recommendations of the recently published report on probationer training of the Garda Training Committee. It is an unspoken criticism of the existing training system that the proposals of the Committee do not appear startling or radical but entirely logical. Perhaps the most interesting section of the Report is that deal- ing with the role and function of the police in modern society. The Report offers the following definition: A. To provide services within a legal framework and in accord- ance with the social values and aspirations of a democratic society in order to help the com- munity; (i) To protect life and proper- ty, by guarding, patrolling and anticipating danger not only from criminal acts, but also from those acts which are natural, accidental or unintentional; (ii) To safeguard the liberties of the individual and preserve the public peace by seeking to create and maintain con- ditions under which people may go about their lawful affairs undisturbed and pro- tected from harmful and dangerous conduct; (iii) To prevent crime and to seek, identify and eliminate the causes of crime; (iv) To detect offenders if crime is committed. B. To encourage and advise the community on how to protect their persons and property from criminal behaviour.

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Law Society Annual Conference

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