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QuickCheck: Did Ireland's police log 50 cases linked to a non-existent person?
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IT SOUNDS like something out of a cop comedy; a national police force spends time and resources trying to track down a repeat offender who stays one step ahead of them by changing their identity – only to learn this person was actually a cultural misunderstanding.

Is it really true that the Irish police actually logged 50 cases trying to “catch” a non-existent person due to a linguistic misunderstanding?Yes, Ireland’s Garda actually logged 50 illegal parking and speeding cases linked to a non-existent person that somehow kept changing their address every time they were “caught” by police personnel on the ground.

The Irish Times also reported in a 2009 article that there were 50 offences linked to this name by June 2007 in the Garda’s online database, Pulse.As the Garda found out, the answer is no – and this is because while “Prawo Jazdy” means something in Polish, it is in fact not a name. “Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for driving licence and not the first and surname on the licence,” he wrote.

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