CSO Recorded Crime Statistics-41% of Garda stations have only one crime a week

[PaddyJoe]

The IT today has an analysis of the latest crime statistics from the CSO. The figures are on a station by station basis instead of on the usual divisional basis.
A cynic could think that the figures have been presented on this basis in order to make a case for the closure of rural stations.
In any case, it seems that there are huge disparities in crime levels reported to various stations and that the figures are very low in some rural areas.

DETAILED FIGURESfrom the Central Statistics Office show recorded crime is very low in most parts of the Republic, with 80 per cent of Garda stations recording one crime or less per day last year and 41 per cent recording one crime or less per week. The figures do not include murders and sex offences because of data protection and identification concerns.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...322386248.html

[Seán Ryan]

Store Street Garda station was the busiest in the country with 8,510 crimes reported. That's a lot of crime! However, if you break this down into something meaningful, you figure that Store Street has to deal with nearly one crime report per hour, in a 24 hour day. And that's the busiest station in the country.

Wonder how much of that massively reduced overtime budget went on subsidising Shell security? It's funny, but there's an argument, if one were to consider the deal done with Shell a good one, that the State would be right to provide the security for the project. If Shell had to do something that was within the competence of the State to do, it would reflect in a lot more written off in costs against our share of the profit, than if we were to supply our own practically redundant garda force (according to the CSO stats). But the problem is of course that we have already been told that Shell will not make a profit from Mayo. So why are we instead subsidising a project that we for all intents and purposes, should consider redundant. We're bailing out Shell so that they'll minimise the loss they are allegedly going to make. Who signed us up to that and why is the gimp currently in charge of such things, continuing the practice?

[C. Flower]

If Store Street was only open once a week, at unpredictable hours, as is the case with many rural stations, I dare say the numbers of crimes reported there would drop.

"Cost of running the station per crime reported" would also be a useful figure.

[Baron von Biffo]

The IT today has an analysis of the latest crime statistics from the CSO. The figures are on a station by station basis instead of on the usual divisional basis.
A cynic could think that the figures have been presented on this basis in order to make a case for the closure of rural stations.
In any case, it seems that there are huge disparities in crime levels reported to various stations and that the figures are very low in some rural areas.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...322386248.html

You wouldn't need to be too cynical to think that. The story hits two IT G-spots simultaneously - It hits PS workers and it hits Boggers.

Closing rural stations and pulling Gardaí back to the cities will help reduce crime in the capital by shifting the activities of crime gangs down the country. And that's fair enough for the IT.

[Baron von Biffo]

Even Niall Collins has spotted holes in the way the stats are being spun.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/c...on-563469.html

[Andrew49]

Even Niall Collins has spotted holes in the way the stats are being spun.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/c...on-563469.html

" Niall Collins: Also, many of the rural Garda stations are only open for a few hours a day or a couple of days a week. Crimes committed in the catchment area when these stations are closed are not attributed to them, which may distort the figures."

And we don't want any distortion of the figures, eh Niall?