In a letter seen by the Irish Mirror, the serving officer has made a number of bombshell allegations outlining an alleged culture of laziness in the unit.
A member of the Garda Roads Policing Unit has claimed that officers are blowing into breathalysers themselves and recording it as a checkpoint.
The Garda making them has been a member of a Divisional Roads Policing Unit, previously the Traffic Corps, for a large part of their career. The officer raises serious allegations about Garda members being told to carry out drink-driving checkpoints, which were allegedly never done. They also claim criminals are roaming the roads around the nation with almost nobody around to stop them.
"If I came across a good crime detection or someone with a warrant or a day where I could have a good number of road detections, any of these would mean I was going to be punished."The garda now claims that he tried to do as little as possible, and in a 12-hour shift only try to issue just one or two tickets and try not to get a prisoner.
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