David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 2:

“To add the following paragraphs after ‘who are not Joint Policing Committee members’:- recommends that all Joint Policing Committees regularly convene public meetings as a matter of priority, supported by an outreach programme to increase and diversify participation where senior Gardaí and appropriate senior local authority staff are in attendance, as well as representatives of statutory agencies responsible for issues likely to be raised; and that there should be a minimum of four meetings per annum with the dates set at the start of the calendar year;
- recommends that the Garda representative should present a report at each meeting in a written format including statistical data, which can be compared and contrasted from meeting to meeting;
- recommends that at a designated month each year the Joint Policing Committees should invite submissions from the public on the topic of the following year’s annual policing plan; that at the same time as public submissions are sought, the local Divisional and District Officers should provide the Joint Policing Committee with a report on the operation of the local policing plan to date; and that shortly following the receipt of annual public and Garda submissions each Joint Policing Committee should have a single item agenda meeting the purpose of which is to agree and sign-off on recommendations for the next year’s local annual policing plan which should include recommendations for local rostering arrangements; and
- proposes that councils should establish a Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour Division drawing staff from housing, community, environment and planning departments, which can act as a secretariat for the Joint Policing Committee.”