OFFICERS investigating the disappearance of €9,000 from an evidence bag locked into a safe at a garda station are carrying out an audit to establish how the money went missing.
The investigation team is trying to establish how many people handled the cash from the time it was recovered by gardai after a post office robbery to being stored in the garda station strong-room.
The investigation was ordered after it was determined that the missing money had not been mislaid elsewhere in the station and is being headed by a chief superintendent and a detective superintendent.
The Irish Independent disclosed yesterday that the money was suspected to be part of a €26,000 haul taken from the post office in Lusk in north Co Dublin last January.
Gardai said last night they were focusing on pinpointing the whereabouts of the cash from the time it was seized from a getaway car, which had been intercepted and blocked by an anti-crime patrol shortly after the raid.
The haul was initially checked and then photographed, fingerprinted and forensically examined before it was bagged and tagged as potential evidence in any criminal trial arising from the inquiries into the raid.
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The evidence bag was then placed in the safe in a strong-room at Balbriggan garda station.
The discrepancy was discovered late last month when John Wilson, the owner of the Costcutter shop, where the post office is located, called to the station to seek the return of the money.
After officers found a small tear in the bag, they checked the contents and discovered there was only €17,000 still held in the safe. Mr Wilson retrieved the rest of his money from the garda station and lodged it in the bank.
He revealed he can't make a claim for the missing cash on his insurance until the investigation is complete.
"For all we know, it could turn up at a holding unit or another garda station," he said.
The investigation team is currently interviewing any gardai who might have been in contact with the evidence bag.
Officers are also examining the records kept to log the whereabouts of the money and the results of a forensic examination of the bag for fingerprints.
During the January raid three men held up four members of staff and a couple of customers at gunpoint before making off with the money.
The post office was also held up by an armed gang, who confronted members of the garda emergency response unit in May 2005. Two of the robbers, Colm Griffin and Eric Hopkins were killed.
Ah, they were excluded from Croke Park 2 bless em. They have to make the money up somehow. It's just a commercial decision like taking payment for removing penalty points.
Godsgift: Ah, they were excluded from Croke Park 2 bless em. They have to make the money up somehow. It's just a commercial decision like taking payment for removing penalty points.
Well, like I said before about half of them are straight, the other half are twisted cops. It's like flipping a coin when you have to be dealing with them.
Why not take it?? it's not as if you're ever going to get caught..there's no morals in this country anymore, it's every man for himself...we're being led by schemers and robbers, expect the same from the people!!
MADDOG69: This is the sort of stuff you'd expect form Eastern Europe or the Third World. Not our own.
i would nt expect anything better from them i reckon its more like 75% bad 25% good hopfully they ll dig deeper find out about all the missing drugs from evidence.The country is broke now imagine what they were taking for the cookie jar in the boom times
mcattack: Yeah you have to turn off your phone as soon as a Garda comes near you...friend of mine was working on air con in a Garda station and had to into the evidence room, place was full with phones, cash and weed...he was left alone for about 2 hours and wasn't even searched leaving the place..apparently there's no cameras in them rooms either
I didn't have the chance to turn off the phone unfortunately. Not that it bothered me much in the end. He was a big squared headed muck savage getting himself off on personal photos.
No cameras in the evidence room? haha. There ya go then.
MADDOG69: I didn't have the chance to turn off the phone unfortunately. Not that it bothered me much in the end. He was a big squared headed muck savage getting himself off on personal photos.
No cameras in the evidence room? haha. There ya go then.
Yeah i couldn't believe it either...maybe they don't have them in any stations because surely all they had to do was check the cameras??
mcattack: Yeah i couldn't believe it either...maybe they don't have them in any stations because surely all they had to do was check the cameras??
It's probably the way they want it so they can fix up whatever evidence they want.
I remember an American fella telling me his friends in the Police back there routinely go around with what's called a 'Throw Down'. If they shoot someone and they made a mistake in shooting him, they'll leave a 'Throw Down' ie. A knife or something. That gets them out of the woods when they can say there was a threat.
MADDOG69: It's probably the way they want it so they can fix up whatever evidence they want.
I remember an American fella telling me his friends in the Police back there routinely go around with what's called a 'Throw Down'. If they shoot someone and they made a mistake in shooting him, they'll leave a 'Throw Down' ie. A knife or something. That gets them out of the woods when they can say there was a threat.
American po-lease are scum and have been caught fraiming people so many times...ever seen Murder on a Sunday Morning?? check it out
I'm amazed that there hasn't been too many Garda caught here, they're probably worse...
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OFFICERS investigating the disappearance of €9,000 from an evidence bag locked into a safe at a garda station are carrying out an audit to establish how the money went missing.
The investigation team is trying to establish how many people handled the cash from the time it was recovered by gardai after a post office robbery to being stored in the garda station strong-room.
The investigation was ordered after it was determined that the missing money had not been mislaid elsewhere in the station and is being headed by a chief superintendent and a detective superintendent.
The Irish Independent disclosed yesterday that the money was suspected to be part of a €26,000 haul taken from the post office in Lusk in north Co Dublin last January.
Gardai said last night they were focusing on pinpointing the whereabouts of the cash from the time it was seized from a getaway car, which had been intercepted and blocked by an anti-crime patrol shortly after the raid.
The haul was initially checked and then photographed, fingerprinted and forensically examined before it was bagged and tagged as potential evidence in any criminal trial arising from the inquiries into the raid.
Tear
The evidence bag was then placed in the safe in a strong-room at Balbriggan garda station.
The discrepancy was discovered late last month when John Wilson, the owner of the Costcutter shop, where the post office is located, called to the station to seek the return of the money.
After officers found a small tear in the bag, they checked the contents and discovered there was only €17,000 still held in the safe. Mr Wilson retrieved the rest of his money from the garda station and lodged it in the bank.
He revealed he can't make a claim for the missing cash on his insurance until the investigation is complete.
"For all we know, it could turn up at a holding unit or another garda station," he said.
The investigation team is currently interviewing any gardai who might have been in contact with the evidence bag.
Officers are also examining the records kept to log the whereabouts of the money and the results of a forensic examination of the bag for fingerprints.
During the January raid three men held up four members of staff and a couple of customers at gunpoint before making off with the money.
The post office was also held up by an armed gang, who confronted members of the garda emergency response unit in May 2005. Two of the robbers, Colm Griffin and Eric Hopkins were killed.