Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Pat Leahy:
We can conclude the mapping process towards early in the first quarter of next year. We will be going to four divisions with this model in the first quarter of 2019. We will see it on the ground. The plan for a complete reorientation will involve a period of three to five years. This is about culture and values and changing the nature of policing. In any event, we will certainly get it started in 2019. We will get it off the ground in the first quarter with the four divisions. Assistant Commissioner Finn is responsible for this aspect of the new divisional model. I suggest that we will certainly have the entire country mapped out for community policing areas early in the first quarter of 2019. We have already started.
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