Sinn Féin TD for Roscommon/Galway has last month written to the Garda Commissioner Drew Harris on the back of continuing burglaries in the County Roscommon, asking him to act.
Speaking today, Kerrane said: “I have been raising the falling number of Gardaí in Roscommon and Galway with the Minister for Justice, in the Dáil, and publicly since the spate of burglaries in West Roscommon began last December. These burglaries are still continuing right up to this week.
“People in our communities are living in fear. This is never acceptable.
“I wrote to the Garda Commissioner last month asking him to do a number of things – an urgent review of the enlarged Boyle/Castlerea Garda District, a specific Garda plan for rural towns and villages where Garda numbers are down and where Garda stations have closed and a review of his internal process for Garda transfers, which I have written to him about previously, more than once.
“The Garda Commissioner is in charge, he determines where Garda resources go and I have made it crystal clear to him that our County needs to be looked at urgently. I look forward to engaging with him on this and reporting back to the people.”
