Uniform Question

[Joshua]

Strummers GP contacted me and asked me to close this thread.

[Eddie Dillon]

Yup, I'm sure alright. There's a guy with a French one but this fella's a different one. Irish smock, complete with flag and all. Just breezing around the computers he was!

[Itchy]

As a matter of interest, on Friday I passed some clown in the library in UL wearing an Irish smock. Can't understand it at all

Ya sure??? Theres a lad alright with a french dpm smock.

No i dont study in the library OK!!!!

[Eddie Dillon]

As a matter of interest, on Friday I passed some clown in the library in UL wearing an Irish smock. Can't understand it at all

[Bosco]

not that I know is it even in constitution, statute books
or would you get done for a wrongful imprisonment type of offence

[FMolloy]

You try it Sharp Shooter & let us know how you get on.

[Truck Driver]

If the said individual is not in the DF, then he is not entitled to wear the said jacket. And the
Defence Act is a legal Statute, in which there are rules on the wearing and prohibition of
wearing of uniform. So if the individual is in breach of this Act, then surely that is a breach of the
law, and a case could be made for the jacket to be confiscated by the Gardai on behalf of the MP's.
Would be a bit daft for a bystander to get involved in trying to reef the jacket from his shoulders,
the bystander would be needing an ambulance crew, never mind the Gardai...

Yea or nay?

[Goldie fish]

To be placed under citizens arrest,you need to have been observed commiting a felony. So far we are trying to establish if a person wearing such garment is commiting a felony? The evidence says no,and I do not know of any case of wrongful arrest in the court by an aggreived dpm smock wearer..

So I'll say no(unless proved otherwise)

[Truck Driver]

Don't know............

HEY ! Wasn't it you who was going on about the scruff ball going around Newbridge
wearing DPM?

Simple answer... drop into DFTC MP Coy up in the Curragh Camp and ask them.
They'll get the Gardai on the case, and c'est ca...

[Sharp_Shooter]

Sorry for starting a debate about this, but no-one here answered the question I was looking for in the first place :

My question is, in practise, have people been placed under citizen arrest by others in the past for wearing the uniform when not a memeber of the RDF/PDF or out of training/working hours.

That's all I wanted to know, has anyone ever been placed under citizen arrest in the past...

Whatever about respect for the Irish Army, that is a different topic altogether.

[strummer]

Moonstomper for President !!!

[DeV]

Is this tendency to got overly excited about about uniforms purely a reservist thing? I don't remember ever hearing a pdf member comment on people wearing combat jackets on sites or wherever. Perhaps because quite a few of us wore those surplus Israeli jackets bought in the Leb we were desperate criminals ourselves, or maybe we had better things to do with our time.

It could be because the PDF generally have good access to clothing stores and get the kit they need, where as the RDF have to beg/borrow/steal.

[moonstomper]

Surely the old green kit, in it's time, was as much the uniform of the state as DPM is now, and it's widespread misuse had no adverse consequences either to the reputation of the DF or the security of the country. Maybe those who are really concerned should carry out citizen's arrests in pubs, clubs and building sites. The subsequent court cases will make great reading. In fact since there's never been a proper Irish crimebusting superhero, apart from Miss Flanagan in the Ireland's Own, I sense an opportuniy here. A concerned citizen who enforces DF dress regulations throughout the universe? To uniformity and beyond.

[Muzzle]

We are only talking about the new stuff not the old green kit.

[moonstomper]

Reservist obsession

Is this tendency to got overly excited about about uniforms purely a reservist thing? I don't remember ever hearing a pdf member comment on people wearing combat jackets on sites or wherever. Perhaps because quite a few of us wore those surplus Israeli jackets bought in the Leb we were desperate criminals ourselves, or maybe we had better things to do with our time.