Local Community Safety Partnership

The Local Community Safety Partnership unites government, statutory services, voluntary sector, local councillors, and community members to address local community safety issues.

Objectives of the local Community Safety Partnerships

The partnership approach is built on two premises:

1. Every community is different and has different problems and issues. 
2. Responding to those problems and issues requires a range of inputs from across Government, local services, voluntary sector and the community itself. 

The response to the issues identified above requires the following elements:

1. Community engagement in identifying what the needs of the community are;
2. Commitment and buy-in from State, local and voluntary service providers to work 
together to address those needs.

Cork City Local Community Safety Partnership

The Cork City Local Community Safety Partnership will be established in April 2025 following the commencement of the Policing, Security and Community Policing Act on Wednesday 2nd April 2025 (see info below on the Act). Information on LCSP membership, meetings, actions, etc. will be published here as soon as the regulations are issued and the LCSP is officially set up and members instated. 

Contact the Cork City Local Safety Partnership Office:

communitysafety@corkcity.ie 

Call: 0214 904000

What is Community Safety?

The concept of community safety is about people being safe and feeling safe in their own community. At the heart of this policy is the principle that every community has the right to be and feel safe in order to thrive and flourish. 

Ireland is generally regarded as a safe country in international terms, with relatively low  crime rates and a general feeling of safety and security. However, we recognise that this is not the case in every community and that people living in disadvantaged areas can experience a different reality.
 
The new community safety policy will ensure communities are safer and feel safer by making community safety a whole of Government responsibility and priority, to be  delivered through Local Community Safety Partnerships (LCSPs), supported through a national governance structure.

This structure will ensure that communities are empowered to have a strong say in what actions are prioritised by the services operating in their area, and will also have a key oversight role in ensuring those actions are followed through.

Community Safety Policy Paper

Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024

Following over a year of consultation and deliberation, the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland (CoFPI) published its Report in 2018 outlining a vision and roadmap to strengthen An Garda Síochána and the broader national framework for policing, security and community safety. The Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024 underpins and implements its key recommendations. It was commenced on Wednesday 2nd April 2025.