Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion
Mr. Drew Harris:
There will be three community engagement superintendents for the division plus two others - they will be superintendents - who will be based in an office somewhere. It will be made clear that those two will also have a responsibility, as all members of the Garda do, around engagement and community confidence. Where we remove a superintendent, we will replace that individual with an inspector, who will lead the local policing team in what was the old district. That inspector will not have the weight of administration, including complaints and human resources issues, that is currently on superintendents. In effect, that member will be a community policing inspector. He or she may be the resource that someone would approach in some places.
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