Dr Johnny Connolly addresses Policing Authority community safety oversight event
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Dr Johnny Connolly
Drugs and gang crime expert Dr Johnny Connolly, a research fellow at University of Limerick School of Law, addressed a Policing Authority meeting this morning on community safety oversight.
Dr Connolly, a member of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland, joined others on the panel for the event, which was livestreamed on YouTube.
The commission’s report last September recommended the establishment of a new Policing and Community Safety Oversight Commission to supersede the Policing Authority and the Garda Inspectorate.
The meeting allowed a panel of experts and an invited audience of key stakeholders to consider what community safety oversight might look like in an Irish policing context.
The other panellists were Susannah Hancock, chief executive of the Association of Policing and Crime Commissioners UK; Rita Fagan, director of the Family Resource Centre in St Michael’s Estate, Inchicore; and Professor Duncan Morrow, professor in politics and director of community engagement at Ulster University.
In a separate development, the Policing Authority is set to commission research on crime victims’ experiences with gardaí.
The research will examine in particular the impact of the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017, the Irish Examiner reports.
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