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. Alan Todd:

We spend a lot of time and effort on the enforcement work as well. It is not fair to say it is a choice because it is an illness that needs treatment like any other addiction but enforcement is an important part of it. Communities need to see the police taking it seriously and responding to community intelligence that so and so at such an address is dealing drugs on a Friday night. They want to see that dealt with. The deterrent that comes from enforcement, deterring people who would deal, taking people's property from them when they have profited from dealing, is an important part of the work but removing the market is a bigger job, and that is a healthcare issue.

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