Mr. Niall Garvey:

To follow on the comments about inconsistencies in JPCs, there is also inconsistency within the Garda structure, and that is where community policing must be hammered home at perhaps the superintendent or chief superintendent level. A number of counties operate successful district and divisional meetings, engaging with the community in a real way. Cork does that very well but others I will not name do not do this at all. It shows where this is on the priority list. Looking at the metrics commonly reported in terms of numbers of checkpoints, arrests and everything else, there is never anything about the number of community engagement meetings and so on. It needs to be made more consistent at a higher level.