Operation Quest

[mcsocrates]

Irish Times are reporting that the Gardai have spoken to 36 people last weekend on suspicion of having purchased sex.Files are being prepared for the DPP.
Areas mentioned were Dublin,Wexford ,Kildare and Louth.
Anybody confirm this report?

[FunLuvinCriminal]

Irish Times are reporting that the Gardai have spoken to 36 people last weekend on suspicion of having purchased sex.Files are being prepared for the DPP.
Areas mentioned were Dublin,Wexford ,Kildare and Louth.
Anybody confirm this report?

https://jrnl.ie/4611218

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[RayDonovan]

https://jrnl.ie/4611218

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The best part of articles like that are the comments below them. I’d say poor Veronica never got a decent ride in her life. A little disappointing the accompanying photo isn’t of a woman in over the knee boots bending over, looking in a car window, but you can’t have everything.

Funny the guards were so busy nabbing random punters they had no time to follow up on an escort reporting a client stalking her for four days, making multiple death threats, impersonating a guard, and causing so much trouble for her he got her evicted.

Despite her having video evidence and recordings of all of this, and the guy having a history of doing the same to escorts before. Visit them and then afterward demand his money back or be faced with harassment and stalking making it impossible to work.

Too busy, the poor guards, our taxes hard at work, saving fallen women.

[gonzo76]

https://jrnl.ie/4611218

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The comments show the public opinion very clearly. Veronica is in a very small minority. A very vocal one for sure.

[johnwin530]

Is Veronica really Sarah Benson CEO of Ruhama

[Floki]

The comments show the public opinion very clearly. Veronica is in a very small minority. A very vocal one for sure.

And yet, the garda rather listen to people like her than those who truly need the help, such as the escort who has been getting death threats.

[Stonie]

And yet, the garda rather listen to people like her than those who truly need the help, such as the escort who has been getting death threats.

Guards are not too bad and as we all know its illegal to pay for sex here now so obviously they will always take her side, the side of the law, they may not agree with it but they have to do it.
TBH The guards been doing FA from this Bill's introduction with a few scattered random raids here and there to keep some kind of happy but the building pressure of organisations like Ruhuma and others are making them up their game, must be relentless pressure so they have got no choice

[gonzo76]

And yet, the garda rather listen to people like her than those who truly need the help, such as the escort who has been getting death threats.

The guards are enforcement not policy makers. Like anything they get pressure based on optics and newsworthy events. Plus they have to show results based on costs. I doubt any specific case can be shown to be deliberately ignored, it's a matter of resourcing and understanding where they can be effective to meet whatever goal they have been set.

[Half Pint]

Irish Times are reporting that the Gardai have spoken to 36 people last weekend on suspicion of having purchased sex.Files are being prepared for the DPP.
Areas mentioned were Dublin,Wexford ,Kildare and Louth.
Anybody confirm this report?

I know certain locations in louth and Cavan were raided last month, drove by and places closed and no escorts there now at all and know there was some activity by police in the Ballsbridge area, did not hear about wexford or kildare

[homealone1]

Gardaí questioned 36 people over the weekend on suspicion of purchasing sex, an act outlawed in 2017 legislation.

As part of Operation Quest, gardaí conducted a coordinated, intelligence led campaign on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The intelligence led operations was conducted across six garda divisions nationally, both urban and rural. These included the Dublin Metropolitan Region North, Dublin Metropolitan Region East, Dublin Metropolitan Region South Central, Wexford, Louth and Kildare.

“During the course of this intelligence led operation, 36 individuals where stopped and spoken to by members of An Garda Síochána, arising from suspicion of having purchased sexual services from an individual involved in prostitution,” the garda said in a statement on Monday afternoon.

As a result a series of files have been prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

The Operation Quest team is run by the Garda National Protective Services Bureau, in liaison with local detective units.

“This operation reinforces An Garda Síochána’s commitment to target the demand for prostitution and to protect vulnerable persons, including victims of human trafficking involved in prostitution.”

The purchase of sex was made illegal following the introduction of the 2017 Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act.