Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Richard Kennedy:
I agree with Deputy Wallace about vigilante groups. We do not want to go there. The IFA is very involved in text and community alert systems around the country. All of our members are involved in those community activities and we have close co-operation with An Garda Síochána. It is part of the community and it is not just ourselves. In any community, farmers and ordinary people who live in the community are part of text alert or community alert groups and there is ongoing surveillance of suspicious movements.
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