Louth Co Council and An Garda Síochána invite you to have your say by August 22

Louth County Council and An Garda Síochána are conducting a community safety survey as part of their ongoing partnership approach to improving the daily lives of people living, working and visiting in the county.

Due to the unprecedented interest in the survey, which is currently being rolled out across the county, the closing date has been extended to Friday August 22.

Conducted under the aegis of the Louth Joint Policing Committee together with the Peace and Reconciliation Partnership, the survey seeks the views of a broad range of interest groups from young people, older people and the business community to the many intra-cultural groups, and other stakeholders, and asks them to comment about the impact of crime, vandalism and anti-social behaviour on their daily lives. The outcome will be a community safety strategy, based on a co-ordinated, partnership-based approach to policing, where the agencies will work with local communities in a collaborative, action-based, problem-solving way to address issues of concern to them.

Encouraging all local residents to participate in the survey, Joan Martin, the newly-appointed Chief Executive of Louth County Council noted that the community safety strategy will support the valuable work already being done by all the statutory agencies, in County Louth, while building on the Peace III programme’s excellent work across a number of aspects of social and community life.

“Improving quality of life for people in Co Louth is one of the County Council’s main aims” she said, “and we look forward to continuing our good work with agencies and local residents in a targeted way to improve conditions at local level”.

Garda Chief Supt Pat McGee said that An Garda Síochána is committed to getting feedback from as many people as possible.

“Your views are important to us,” he said.

“We want to know what you think and how you feel about community safety, and we invite everybody to participate in this confidential survey. Its results will be used by the Louth Joint Policing Committee and the Louth Peace and Reconciliation Partnership to develop a Community Safety Strategy for County Louth so that people, no matter who they are or where they live, can get on with one another without fear of crime, conflict or anti-social behaviour.”

Share your views and complete this survey by Friday August 22. Log on to www.louthcoco.ie and follow the links, or click directly on:

Young Person’s Community Safety Survey: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1698936/1406130

General Community Safety Survey : http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1699586/1406131

Business Survey: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1700699/1406132 to complete this survey

For further information, call Valerie Artherton, Peace and Reconciliation Partnership, Louth Co Council, Boyne Centre, Drogheda on 041 9876161. This project is supported by the PEACE 111 Programme managed for the Special European Union Programmes Body by Co Louth Peace and Reconciliation Partnership.