Jim O'Callaghan
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581 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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The numbers are low in terms of the extra number of Guardia in Dublin.
But what has changed... As low as 40?
Yeah, could be as low as 40.
But what has changed is that the Commissioner is now implementing government policy of high visibility policing.
So we now have 14,661 sworn members of Angarda Síochána.
they're getting out and effecting high visibility policing.
You see it in Dublin, you see it in O'Connell Street, people mention it to me.
It's happening in Cork, it's happening in Limerick, we're going to roll it out in Galway and it'll happen in rural areas as well.
So we're using the resources more effectively because people want to see Gardaí on the streets.
But I suppose I have to take into account, I was answering a question on this in the Dáil today, like I can't just say to the Commissioner, give every new Gardaí to Dublin.
I've got to be fair about it.
And about 758 new Gardaí have gone to the
deal more, I think, central region since the report came out.
But obviously others have moved on.
Yeah, I do actually.
And I'm not, sorry, I'm not trying to present myself as the, you know, I do think Dublin has got safer because there's a higher visibility of Gardaí on the streets.
And that's a policy that this government asked the commissioner to implement and is being implemented.
Like if you look around the world in terms of crime rates, you know,
You know, Dublin and Ireland are pretty low on the crime rate statistics.
I had a group of American attorneys general over recently, and when I told them that the number of homicides last year was around the region of 50 in Ireland, they thought I had made a mistake.
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