Policing support for fundraisers ‘in jeopardy’

Fundraising runs, walks, and cycles in one county could be put at risk after a senior garda warned that dwindling resources may result in the withdrawal of Garda support for such events.

At a meeting of the Co Clare joint policing committee (JPC), Chief Supt John Kerin warned that if the force in Clare suffered a further reduction in manpower it had “to follow on that services are going to suffer”.

He said: “I simply can’t sustain more reduction in resources.”