Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion

Ms Paula Hilman:

We have outlined our four Es approach involving engagement, explaining, education and, as a last resort, enforcement. It is a problem-solving approach that very much includes community policing teams. In Kerry, we are using the See Something, Say Something app in Tralee, and it is now going to launch in Killarney, through which things can also be reported. We will launch that nationally; it started in Kerry. It is where members of the public can also report things to us through that app. We are about to launch that in Drogheda and Longford.

I have not yet mentioned the joint policing committees and the three new community safety partnerships of Longford, Waterford and north inner city Dublin. It is very much about how we can work in partnership with them - Longford launched its community safety plan just two weeks ago - and especially with the community policing teams. We are working with our roads policing members in the longer term, and the Deputy gave a good example of no drop-off points at a school, to see how they can work with local authorities to facilitate something. That is very much what our approach has been and will continue to be.

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