Kilkenny County and City Joint Policing Committees (JPCs)
Responsibilities
Function of Joint Policing Committees
The Joint Policing Committee’s function is to serve as a forum for consultations, discussions and recommendations on matters affecting the policing of the local authority’s administrative area.
Membership of The Joint Policing Committees
Local Authority Members
Community Representatives
An Garda Siochána
Oireachtas members
Role of The Joint Policing Committees
- Keep under review the levels and patterns of crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour in the area including the patterns and levels of misuse of alcohol and drugs.
- The factors underlying and contributing to the levels of crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour in the area.
What not to Discuss
- Section 36 (4) of the Garda Siochána Act provides:
“Neither the joint policing committee nor any of its subcommittees may consider matters relating to a specific criminal investigation or prosecution or maters relating to the security of the State.”
- A JPC should not consider a matter if:
- it would endanger the security of one or more individuals;
- it relates to an individual;
- it involves information received by the Garda Siochána or the local authority in confidence;
- it would, or would be likely to, prejudice the prevention or detection of crime or the apprehension or prosecution of offenders; or
- it is deemed prejudicial to a Garda operational matter, such as the deployment or composition of specialist units, or involves material of a sensitive nature.
- Individuals shall not be discussed or named.
Kilkenny Joint Policing Committee Annual Report 2010(45 KB .pdf)
Kilkenny Joint Policing Committee Action Plan 2010/2011(17 KB .pdf)
Kilkenny Joint Policing Committee Standing Orders (82 KB .pdf)