Local Community Safety Partnership
Cavan Local Community Safety Partnership
The Policing, Security, and Community Safety Act, 2024 and the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024 (Section 114) (Safety Partnership) Regulations 2025 provided for the establishment of Local Community Safety Partnerships in each Local Authority area.
Local Community Safety Partnerships will build on and replace the existing Joint Policing Committees (JPCs) and will provide a forum for State agencies and local community representatives to work together to act on community concerns.
The objective of The Local Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) is to bring the relevant bodies together with communities in a collaborative manner, by focusing on the concerns identified and prioritised by local people.
The Local Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) will aim to prioritise the voice of local people identifying and addressing community safety issues in collaboration with a range of stakeholders including Cavan County Council, local councillors, An Garda Síochána, community representative, business and education representative and statutory agencies including TULSA, and the HSE.
The objective is to bring the relevant bodies together with communities in a collaborative manner, by focusing on the concerns identified and prioritised by local people. The LCSP will be required to develop and implement its own tailored community safety plan and will take a strategic approach to their work so that issues arising can be dealt with in a coordinated manner; addressed collectively by relevant service providers in partnership with the community.
The Policing Security and Community Safety Act 2024, which came into operation on 2 April 2024, places the LCSPs on a statutory footing. Under the Act, 36 Partnerships will be rolled out nationwide covering each Local Authority area.
The Partnerships will be actively supported by a paid local community safety coordinator and administrator, who are resourced by the Department of Justice.
Partnership Members
The membership of the Local Community Safety Partnership will have up to 30 members and comprise:
- Seven elected members of the relevant local authority
- An employee of the relevant local authority
- Members of An Garda Síochána
- One member of staff of the Health Service Executive (HSE)
- One member of staff of TUSLA, the Child and Family Agency
- Other persons, which may include representatives of local community and voluntary bodies, local community interests, or those otherwise possessing relevant experience or expertise.
Local Community Safety Plan
Each LCSP will prepare a Local Community Safety Plan
Minutes of meetings
Contact Us
Email: LCSP@cavancoco.ie