Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I refer to the community policing aspect. Within the roadmap of the report there is a very strong emphasis on community policing. I am interested in getting some concrete examples from the Commissioner. My personal experience with this is that community policing delivered by An Garda Síochána works very well occasionally. It works very well because somebody comes in, he or she is enthusiastic, is on the ground and working with the community but it is never envisaged as a career or a long-term posting. That garda moves on and gets promotion. It is the type of job that the young man or woman coming from Templemore does and then moves on from and therefore it is stop-start. A gap arises when they move on and the post is not filled or it gets diverted. Under the proposal that is there, the whole force re-emphasises and refocuses on community policing. How does the Commissioner envisage that we would be changing structures in a more concrete manner to deliver that, as distinct from the way in which most communities would feel that it works at the moment?