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The percent (%) Catholic is increasing as follows over time:
2001: 8.0%
2005: 17.0%
2006: 19.5%
2008: 24.0%
2009: 26.14%
BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Quarter of police are Catholics
The percent (%) Catholic is increasing as follows over time:
2001: 8.0%
2005: 17.0%
2006: 19.5%
2008: 24.0%
2009: 26.14%
RIRA not in my name-Traitors to Ireland MMcGuinness; People are entitled to cultural & social equality MLMcDonald; We have a length to go understanding unionism GAdams
mean while protestant are 0.01% of the Garda
Enda Kenny on FF government: “We’re in this mess, not because Fianna Fáil policies have failed, but because they have succeeded.”
It's good progress but the target should be 40%, not the official target of 30%.
There is no evidence that that is so.Originally Posted by drbob1972
There is. The information was supplied under FOI a couple of years ago.
A little lesson on geographic and political terms for dummies :
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Meaning it's out of date, not least given our population has risen by several hundred thousand since then.
even it if there has been a 10 fold increase, its still 0.1 % or 1% if theres been a hundred fold increase, either way its still pretty unrepresentative, esp with protestents being 3.7% of the population, the point being that a police force should ideally be representative of the community it serves but should also be capable of serving all in society equally and not just based in religion / ethnicity, etc. I as a non Roman Catholic have never one in all my dealing with the police ever had the slightest issue with them, its only a pity that the same cannot be said for NI
Enda Kenny on FF government: “We’re in this mess, not because Fianna Fáil policies have failed, but because they have succeeded.”
The 30% level is the point at which religious 50-50 rule is dropped. It does not mean that a 30% level is a target for recruitment.
RIRA not in my name-Traitors to Ireland MMcGuinness; People are entitled to cultural & social equality MLMcDonald; We have a length to go understanding unionism GAdams
I was in a garda station in Clare a few years ago (giving a statement as a witness to an accident, I might swiftly add before the wisecracks start) and the place had loads of Catholic icons on public view - e.g. Child of Prague statue, Sacred Heart picture - as well as a crucifix on the wall.
I just wondered if it was appropriate, and what we might say if the PSNI had Protestant/Orange Order stuff in their public offices.
Nice to see that PSF certainly doesn’t endorse sectarian head counting.
The amount of people belonging to a particular religion in any police force shouldn’t really matter.
Yes, but it's Northern Ireland. So it does.
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