Community gardaí ‘key in fighting crime’

COMMUNITY policing is crucial to the prevention and investigation of crime, Dublin’s top garda told an international conference yesterday.

Assistant Commissioner Al McHugh said community policing often described as the 'Cinderella' arm of the Garda Síochána was top of his agenda in the capital.

He told the conference he had put 30 extra officers into community policing in the Dublin west division, an area with a relatively high level of crime and a young population.