Tánaiste insists Dublin city centre is safe, Lord Mayor says gangs ‘terrorising’ people
“I’d rather have those guards out on the street, rather than in an office that nobody actually visits later on into the night,” she said, adding there were 2,199 arrests across Dublin for a range of crimes in June.Minister for Public Expenditure Pascal Donohoe, who represents Dublin Central in the Dáil, credited the opening of the O’Connell Street Garda station with already having had a positive impact on the street.
Mr Martin said he had heard of people being randomly attacked on the street in other parts of the country, which was “not acceptable”, but that it could happen “periodically in society”. Earlier, Dublin’s Lord Mayor Daithí de Róiste said gangs of teenagers were now “terrorising” people on the streets of Dublin and as Ireland was “awash with money”, conditions in the Garda should be examined to entice more people into a career in policing,
He believed those teenagers did not fear encountering a policing presence on the streets because that presence had declined. “High visibility” policing would both deter antisocial behaviour and street violence and gangs, and would also help address the fear of crime.
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