Silly church people

[Pat Mustard]

What exactly is this essential work that's more important than directing traffic during a busy hour? Do you just think police shouldn't direct traffic in general?

I don't like it any more than any other atheist when half the stores in town close down just so people can sit on a bench and listen to a guy read a book to them, but I honestly don't know what the rub is about police directing traffic.

Well from reading the other responses before mine the whole working on security in your own time while wearing official clobber thing is completely alien to An Garda Síochána.

The first will get you sacked, the second sacked so hard you'll be on the dole the rest of your life. Only times you'll see a guard in uninform and off duty is when they're being decorated for bravery or they're in a Paddy's day parade, and the second occasion only happend after getting very special permission from on high. The whole uniform of duty thing is so import that no guard wears identifying markings when even on tea break.