how corrupt is the irish police force

The Ombudsman organisation tasked with investigating complaints about the Irish police force (styled An Garda Siochana) has published its annual report.
The report claims there were 3500 complaints against the Irish police last year.
Of course most people don't bother to complain after an encounter with our endemically congenitally individually and institutionally corrupt police force.
Most people don't bother complaining to the Ombudsman because last year of the 3500 complaints received by the Ombudsman, a grand total of 5 went to court.
A grand total of one police officer was convicted.
Hilarious no.
Of the complaints received by the Ombudsman some 16 involved the deaths of human beings.
Eight of those deaths followed what was styled "contact" with Irish police officers.
Seven of those deaths resulted from traffic "accidents."
One death occurred, or at least officially occurred, in police custody.
There were many other deaths in Ireland last year in which the Irish police force was involved.
There was one grotesque case where a traveller who had assaulted a police officer was killed with an electro prod.
Robert Mugabe would have been proud.
But these are the 16 deaths that resulted in official complaints to the Ombudsman.
These are the 16 deaths which showed up on the map.
Meanwhile the Ombudsman's office has expressed satisfaction about its positive relationship with the Garda Siochana.
The Guards must be fairly satisfied too.
One conviction out of 2000 complaints must make them feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Not so satisfying for the general public though.
All those assaults, rapes murders, collusions with drug dealers, casual attempts to criminalise the general public, and only one minor conviction for assault.
No police officer in the history of the Republic of Ireland has been convicted for murder.
And still people are dropping like flies in the cells.
And still the police feel free to beat people to the ground with truncheons at a protest march in Dublin.
And still the police assault elderly people at the Shell To Sea demo in Mayo, assault them through the expedient of carrying them bodily to a particular area and then dropping them from a height of four feet onto concrete.
Dropping a senior citizen onto concrete from shoulder height breaks bones.
Irish police consider it a nifty way to commit an assault when there may be camera phones in the vicinity.
It appears to all intents and purposes as though they're simply moving the protestors to another location.
The trick is not to lower the protestors to the ground.
Just drop em.
That's how it's done.
And still the Irish police occasionally produce a dramatic drugs bust to make it appear as if they actually do some work for a living.
I would aver that major crime gangs arrange with the police to capture a tiny percentage of cargo while 99 percent of the stuff gets distributed around the country unhindered.
The drug gangs do this in every other country.
Do we seriously think they haven't tried to buy cops and Judges here?
We hear these big news stories along the lines of: "Irish police find seven million Euro worth of drugs."
Yeah.
It's the other 700 million Euro's worth of drugs they let through that I worry about.
And still the police ignore the Ombudman's recommendations whenever they choose.
And still, and still, and still...
And still the Ombudsman is pleased he has such good relations with these murdering psychotic out of control drug dealing thug cops.
Bless.
And still the likes of Sergeant James D O'Mara is allowed to wear a Garda uniform and terrorise citizens at the side of the road for the crime of permitting a light to fuse on their car in a downpour.
The same Sergeant James D O'Mara who threw a photograph on the ground from my wallet, forced me to stand at the side of the road in a tee shirt in the rain, shouted in my face "you should know that light is broken," sneered at me that he thought I might have stolen my own car, smirked when I asked could I go to jail for a broken car light, sneered again "that depends what attitude the judge takes," refused to answer my questions and stomped away from me after half an hour with the triumphal cry: "I'm finished with you."
That incompetent thug is a police officer in Ireland being paid a hundred grand a year by our corrupt kleptocratic Fianna Fail government to terrorise me at the side of the road while the country sinks ever deeper into a crime wave of ganglanders, rapists druggies, murderers, grievous bodily harmers, house breakers, banker robbers, and Muslim Jihadis.
All this going on.
And an incompetent thug like James D O' Mara who didn't know how to say: "Get that light fixed sir," is still swanning around in his police uniform.
Bloody marvellous.
By the way, there was another police officer present the night James D O'Mara was betraying the law of the Republic of Ireland by attempting to terrorise me.
She was a chubby lady.
She came running up from the squad car and retrieved the photo which James D O'Mara had thrown on the ground.
"He did that by accident," she said, handing me the photo.
Then she ran away again.
Ah the heroes of law enforcement.
Aren't they simply boffo.