Future of policing: Protecting communities and changing Garda culture

The Policing Authority's strategy statement places community policing as the first of five strategic themes for the next three years. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Conversations with local family resource centres gave the leaders of the Policing Authority an insight into how a visible Garda presence could look.

“They were saying if you had a garda here [in the centre] it would be safer for people,” said authority chief executive Helen Hall.