Talk:Dublin Metropolitan Police

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"In common with police forces on the island of Great Britain, the DMP was an unarmed force. In this, it provided the inspiration for the first Commissioner of An Garda Síochána, who declared that the new force should also be unarmed." Shouldn't mention also be made that the 'Republican Police' established during the war of independence and operating fairly efectively through out large partf of Ireland was also an unarmed force. The Garda Síochána is the lineal descendent of the Republican Police in that many of its initial members were republican police officers who were more or less transfered to the Gardaí. I would accept that the republican police took their inspiration for being an unarmed civilian police force from the British example but in Ireland the police, with the exception of the DMP were armed, and it can be argued that the modern Gardaí owes its generally unarmed status to the Republican Police as much as it does to the DMP.