It was my first day of work experience in Dundrum garda station, I started on the Friday before everyone else. I arrived at the front desk at around ten o’clock which is when I started. Then I was told to come up stairs, when I got upstairs Kevin sat me down at a desk with a computer. I thought to myself 'this doesn’t look fun', but he opened up this video with surveillance from Dundrum.
I was looking through all the videos of people taking stuff from shops. I thought it was really cool. Then suddenly we got a call from someone to say that we need to be in town, so we got in the car and left for town. When we got there, we went into a jewellery shop and I was very confused as to why we were there. They explained that we needed to search the place for a piece of jewellery but we couldn’t look for it until we got a search warrant. So we waited for a bit not letting anyone into the shop.
When our search warrant came the guards started to search the shop top to bottom. After a few hours we found what we were looking for so after that I was dropped home but there were still a few guards there cleaning up when I left and that was only day one of five days!
The second day I came in for the same time but that day was different because I only went out in the car. It was a very quiet day and that was the same for all of the days bar the last day.
I was told the day before to come in at six. I was working the late shift and what I did was go around in the car from six till twelve. It felt cool being in the back of a unmarked guard car at night but nothing really happened that night bar a few people speeding and that was it.
Text: J.B.
I was looking through all the videos of people taking stuff from shops. I thought it was really cool. Then suddenly we got a call from someone to say that we need to be in town, so we got in the car and left for town. When we got there, we went into a jewellery shop and I was very confused as to why we were there. They explained that we needed to search the place for a piece of jewellery but we couldn’t look for it until we got a search warrant. So we waited for a bit not letting anyone into the shop.
When our search warrant came the guards started to search the shop top to bottom. After a few hours we found what we were looking for so after that I was dropped home but there were still a few guards there cleaning up when I left and that was only day one of five days!
The second day I came in for the same time but that day was different because I only went out in the car. It was a very quiet day and that was the same for all of the days bar the last day.
I was told the day before to come in at six. I was working the late shift and what I did was go around in the car from six till twelve. It felt cool being in the back of a unmarked guard car at night but nothing really happened that night bar a few people speeding and that was it.
Text: J.B.