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THE EU HAS decided to extend its Somalia anti-piracy operation for another two years until the end of 2018 as NATO wound up its involvement, with virtually no attacks reported in recent years.
The EU launched EUNAVFOR Operation Atalanta in 2008 as pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa increased sharply in an offshoot from Somalia’s civil war, with NATO providing ships and aircraft as well.
A statement by the European Council, which groups the EU’s 28 member states, said they agreed to provide €11 million to fund Atalanta for the next two years.
In addition to countering pirates, Atalanta also protects World Food Programme vessels and other shipping, monitors fishing off the coast of Somalia and supports other EU missions and programmes in the region, the statement said.
The EUNAVFOR website shows pirate attacks peaked at 176 in 2011, falling sharply since then to just one so far this year.
NATO said separately it was winding down its involvement as the mission had “achieved its strategic objectives.”
The threat was likely to remain low but the US-led alliance “stands ready to quickly resume counter-piracy patrols if necessary,” a NATO official said.
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YOU can be sure they were the rank and file members not senior management who put there lives at risk,everyday to protect the public
@pat seery:
But that is the job spec. Do you expect the rank and file to be making the strategic and tactical decisions?
@pat seery: well deduced sherlock
@Nick Allen: cause that’s what they do!!!!
@pat seery: I’d be interested to see how many of that number were actually during an arrest
@Zossima: Knob. I, like most right thinking people, believe that the Gardai, in the main,do an excellent job. You couldn’t pay me enough money to put up with what they have to put up with daily.
What will be interesting is the number of compensation claims pursued for these non specified injuries, I do hope paper cuts don’t make the list.
@Marie Nolan:
Garda statistics???
@Christy Nolan:
Injuries where there was no malice involved are also included in the report.
@TonyF: innocent? Very very few I’d say.
We’d be in a sad state without Gardai on the streets yes not enough but what’s there in general are good,so if they are injured they need compensation
become a member of an gardai siochana..low pay and plenty of abuse daily
@Paddy Kavanagh: they are not badly paid. Refer to Bord Snip Nua report done several years ago.
@Paddy Kavanagh: what stuff are you on. Gardai are not low paid
@jfm: They’re not particularly well paid for what they do
@Tom Tom: https://gra.ie/information/pay-salary-scales/ Here’s the list
@iohanx: Never mind Board Snip, that fellow was and still is off the wall.. of course they are badly paid, would You go out at night to work and take abuse and get assaulted by bad mannered louts who neither care for God or man , a terrible job with everyone trying to catch them out every time.
@Zossima: What has that got to do with Garda injury statistics?
What makes me laugh is the people that slam the gards call them names and take the piss are the first motherf##kers to ring them if they get into hassle, I know this from 2 first hand experiences dealing with so called hard men I’m not the gards biggest fan but I respect their job and the sh#t they have to put up with ,
@Donal O Cofaigh: muppet
@James: who’s the muppet, if it’s me your referring to , why ??
@Donal O Cofaigh: Cant you tell? James is street hardened and he dont ree-spect the 5 – 0.
@Billy Connelly: James is hardcore gangster haha
Small injuries and a guard is out for months and fu!#ing well paid for it taking the pi€s 3 months leave for a knee injury that a GAA player gets on a sunday game and back to work Monday morning!
@Adrian: should the head line not say 2 million guards?
@Adrian:
If a Garda is on sick leave he will have to be certified by a chief medical officer . Are the doctors corrupt then.
@Aine O Connor:
Doctors get a fee for every signature on a sick note and on a prescription.
@Christy Nolan:
Chief Medical Officers in the Civil Service are on a annual salary so your point is not relevant.
@Aine O Connor: If someone complains of back pain or any other ”invisible” injury , there’s not much a doctor can say .
@Aine O Connor: Aine it’s just one big conspiracy but only the really clever people like Christy here can see it.
@Aine O Connor: Ah come on Aine surly your not that naive?
@Aine O Connor: its human nature Aine if we could get away with it we would but there are those that do not get a cent and have to get back to work asap.
There is no law an order any more all the thugs an prisoners have more rights than the people that they committed the actions against. To many do gooders around. The police management have let us all down.
@TonyF: we don’t have a problem with Garda brutality. They are very disciplined compared to other police forces. Possibly because the recruitment process is so thorough. 30,000 applicants for 600 jobs means they can be choosy unlike in the US.
It’s the gardai on the beat that get injured not administration gardai or senior management..they are tucked up in bed while gardai on the streets get assaulted. 290 out of 15,000 isn’t bad.
@Zossima:
It’s a crime to assault anyone and that includes Gardai on Duty.
@Zossima: as you can see some people can’t take the truth on the journal
What constitutes and injury? Is a paper cut an injury (extreme example)? I’m not saying some are not serious injuries, but I would hazard a guess that a farmer, barman / bar owner or self employed builder would not classify 90% of these injuries as such.
Is low morale classified as an injury?
Garda figures are BS
@Zossima: That sounds like victim blaming to me.
The comments will be interesting. *grabs popcorn
I would say most of them fell over their parking tickets, !!
I’d like more information on those injuries. New applicants should know the risks.
Wers the fucxxx dislike button
@James: Beside da spell check button Hames
@TonyF: no we don’t Tony.
12,500
@George McCarthy:
1,433,000 fake breath tests and 14,500 wrongly convicted motoring offences. The sympathy vote won’t make that vanish.
Yes those injured deserve sympathy but the above report and it’s timing smell of politics. Using the 2013 tragic death of a rank and file garda in this years report is sick.
Shame on those involved.
@Christy Nolan:
Every Garda on duty every day is a target and is putting his or her life at risk for you and me.
@Aine O Connor:
I am also a target for fake garda statistics.
@Aine O Connor: sorry but can’t agree here. It’s a shite job and the only real reason to sign up to it is to get on the gravy train that comes with corruption. They are only targets because they don’t support communities anymore. When we grew up in Dublin 7 the guards were never a target because they were part of the community. They only became targets when they cut themselves off from communities and left I’m us to fend for ourselves.
@Zossima:
Have you forgotten already how George Hook found himself in a load of trouble for suggesting that the victim was in some way to blame. Thugs commit violent assaults . Fact.
@TonyF: about 8 and a half million at last count… think they’re coming for you now
Just Give it a good hard think about before you decide to join up. There is more reading and information about the organisation now than ever before; use it
This number will only continue to climb until the honest side of the force calls to task the power hungry and aggressive side. The attitude of ordinary guards these days is off the scale. They are rude and aggressive more often than not. I recently had a guard from pearse station berate me, stick his finger up at me and call me all sorts of names. All I did was ask for help, I hadn’t seen what he was involved in. Once I did I actually said it’s grand. Once he resolved the other situation he proceeded to call me names to his colleagues as well as DFB in attendance.
@Phil Swan: They all seemed visibly embarrassed by his attitude but did nothing to stop him. I was across the street waiting on a bus and in front of all he shouted insults at me like a belligerent child. Ombudsman can’t touch them and superiors are worse in many stations. Only option left is reports like this where some will lash out and say enough is enough which is why I only see this number rising.
If your article was honest, it would point out that Bernard Durkan is a Fine Gael Government TD. Then, people could deduce that it would have been unnecessary for him to raise a Parliamentary Question to get that information. People might then conclude that it was fed to him as a form of public relations, something in which the Journal is now complicit, not having explained the full facts. By the way, I am a 100% supporter of the Gardai. I just hate government spin and press collusion.
A Garda injured in the line of duty will wait on average 12 years before receiving any compensation.
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