Establishing a Garda sub station on the Westside of the city as a pilot project for more community policing will be the top election priority of Fianna Fáil’s Ollie Crowe.
Mr Crowe, who is running in Galway City West, believes their needs to be a more “neighbourhood approach” to policing in the city to supplement the main bases in Mill Street and Salthill. He feels a pilot scheme for a substation in Westside could help in paving the way for setting up more such stations in other areas later on.
“We need to integrate the Gardaí more in our communities, to even have a small office as a presence in areas like the Westside and Bohermore would have a very positive effect in the locality,” said Mr Crowe. “It would also allow the Gardaí become more aware of exactly what is going on in our communities.”
