Community wardens to patrol Dublin city to tackle anti-social behaviour

• Published date: 23 November 2022
• Publication title: DublinLive (Ireland)

These wardens will also report on community service issues like management, lighting, and road maintenance. They will be employed through Dublin Town and will be paid for with Community Safety and Innovation fund, which contains money seized from criminals

They will be expected to observe and report anti-social behaviour in their communities. The wardens will initially be rolled out in the Wolfe Tone Square, Capel Street and Jervis Street areas.

Independent Chair of the North Inner City Local Community Safety Partnership Cormac O Donnchu told Newstalk this morning: "We are going to employ some community safety wardens whose role will be to work in specific geographic areas and to work in an observe and report role.

"It is really important to stress this is a non-enforcement role. In lots of ways, we would be familiar, I suppose here in our own areas, with the concept of maybe park wardens, so in some ways, our community safety wardens will supply a high visibility presence on the street."

He stressed that the wardens are not being rolled...