Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)

A successful community policing programme means that every person in every estate, town and village in the State would know the community garda. There are not enough community gardaí. I appreciate that the number of community gardaí has increased over the past number of years but I am asking the Minister to make community policing a key priority of Government, to increase the number of community police and to create a new rank of community garda so that gardaí can progress through the system as community gardaí.

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