Who is Involved?

Community Safety > Who is Involved?

While State services carry out their individual responsibilities, too often their interventions rely on a reactive response to emergency and crisis situations. The aim of community safety is to focus all relevant Government services on prevention and early interventions, and the impact that a shared approach to problem solving can have in ensuring that situations do not develop to the point where they impact on the safety, or feeling of safety, of the community at large.

This approach goes far beyond the traditional policing response and requires all relevant state bodies and voluntary organisations to work together in a joined up way - in partnership with the local community - to prioritise and address issues in their own area.

It is intended that membership of the Local Community Safety Partnership will include: residents; community representatives, including representatives of youth, new communities and the voluntary sector; business and education representatives; relevant public services in the area, including HSE, Tusla, AGS, and the local authority; and Local councillors.

As residents are central to identifying problems and solutions for their community, the partnerships will have a 51/49% split in favour of local residents and community representatives on the committee.

The Local Community Safety Partnership will be actively supported by a local community safety coordinator whose role is to support the Partnership, engage the residents in the community on safety issues and link them in with the work of the Partnership.

This can be done through local communications campaigns, local workshops and events in the community. The intention is to provide an on-site, day-to–day, joined-up connection back to the individual services and between the partnership and the community.