An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na sought to establish legitimacy by the consent. \u00a0The period from 1922 to 1960 was characterised by very low crime rates, high emigration of, an authoritarian social climate and \u00a0a reinvigorated Catholic Church.<\/p>\n
Since 1961 crime rates have increased by many multiples.\u00a0The range of Garda\u2019s powers have increased enormously in the last 40 years.\u00a0 Criminal law has been modernised particularly since 1997.<\/p>\n
The Garda Complaints Board was established in 1986.\u00a0 This followed \u00a0disquiet despite regarding the powers of detention in the Criminal Justice Act 1984.\u00a0 There was concern about the effect on civil liberties.<\/p>\n\n
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18th Century Until the beginning of the 19th Century, the police were under the control of the Grand Jury.\u00a0 By the 17th Century, there were, in theory, at least high constables for Barony and petty of parish constables for each parish. The Grand Jury appointed the high constables from 1734. The Justice of the Peace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30695,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933\/revisions\/30695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}