Sligo LCSP Meeting Agendas

Agenda of Sligo Local Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) Meeting to be held on Wednesday, 28th May 2026 at County Hall, Riverside


TO: EACH MEMBER OF SLIGO LOCAL COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP

A meeting of the Sligo Local Community Safety Partnership will be held

ON: Thursday, 28 May 2026

AT: 10am

IN: Council Chamber, Sligo County Council, County Hall, Riverside, Sligo, F91 Y763

You are requested to attend.

Mairéad Clerkin
Sligo LCSP Co-ordinator

 

Agenda

  1. Declaration of Interest
  2. Confirmation of Minutes of 23.03.2026
  3. Matters Arising
  4. Reports
  5. General Items – to include:
    1. Discussion of key learnings from the Longford Pilot LCSP – Q&A and insights from Mr. Seamie Boyle (Chair) and Ms. Janine Bartley (Co-ordinator), Longford LCSP
    2. Follow on from members survey: Facilitate one-to-one introductions and group discussion around community safety issues in Sligo – For one-to-one introductions, please be ready to outline briefly in conversation what your organisation does.  A couple of sentences is plenty!
  6. Members Interest Items
    1. Received from: Pippa Black - (Introduction to MII attached)
      How many times since it was enacted has the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989 been evoked both successfully and unsuccessfully in County Sligo?
    2. Received from: Chris MacManus
      That Sligo LCSP set up a sub-committee on Rural Crime.
    3. Received from: Chris MacManus
      That Sligo LCSP calls on Sligo County Council and An Garda Síochána (Sligo/Leitrim Division) to intensify and proactively target those who unlawfully use disabled parking bays. Further, to ensure that an annual campaign, similar to ‘Operation Enable’, is instigated with a focus to educate and raise awareness around the proper usage of disabled parking bays, and that such a campaign would engage and allow input from Sligo DPO.
  7. Local Community Safety Plan update and progress
    • Update on Guidelines from National Office for Community Safety for the development of the Community Safety Plan.
    • Public consultation survey. (See attached).
    • Sub-Group for the development of the Community Safety Plan.
  8. Correspondence
    1. Referred Notice of Motion from the April 2026 Council Plenary meeting 4.36 To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Gilroy
      “That Sligo County Council write to the Garda Commissioner and Minister for Justice to express our concern that following the recent conviction of a member of An Garda Síochána for Dangerous Driving while chasing a scrambler. To convey to the Minister and the Commissioner that we are concerned that Gardaí acting in the interest of the citizens face analysis in court of every split-second decision that they make by people who have time to judge their every move.

      We further ask how many “pursuit trained Gardaí” we have nationally and in the Sligo Leitrim Division and how many are even CBD 2 or CBD 3 Driver Trained and are resources in place to train Gardai in Pursuit Training. We also request details of how many CBD 4 (High Powered vehicle Drivers) are in this division and how many vehicle resources of this standard are available to them”.
    2. Letter to LCSP chair, 9th April 2026, from the National Office for Community Safety re: Clarification of Local Policing Plan v the Annual Division al Service Plan under Section 116 of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act.
      And to also consider that in the preparation of our local community plan, we should include reference to local Divisional Annual Service Plans and commit to actively providing input on these plans over its lifetime.
    3. Referred Item from the April 2026 Age Friendly Alliance meeting Re: CCTV schemes Information - Letter from Older Persons Committee seeking information and if this could be discussed with An Garda Síochána
    4. Crime Statistics link sent to members on 01.04.26. The link from the CSO shares a database for recorded crime incidents in policing divisions nationally, including the Sligo Leitrim division.  
  9. AOB

 


Meeting Date 28/05/2026