Cormac O'Keeffe: Security issues trail progress on policing

Three key areas on policing, community safety, and security played out yesterday, with two showing progress, writes Security Correspondent Cormac O'Keeffe

At a launch in Drogheda on Monday, Justice Minister Helen McEntee announced the establishment of seven local community safety partnerships — in Kildare, Leitrim, Louth, South Dublin, Sligo, Tipperary, and Longford. File Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Monday was a busy day for the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland, not that the long-defunct commission actively played a part in three events that played out yesterday.

Its landmark report — a blueprint for the overhaul of policing and security in Ireland — was published just over six years ago.