Public toilets have been closed in the Ward River Valley as two serious incidents of vandalism occured in Swords in the last week. The new public toilets at the Rivervalley entrance to the Ward River Valley park have been smashed up for the second time. The facilities are now closed to the public as repair…
The Garda Unit, which has been pivotal in reducing certain types of crime in the Swords area, is to be reformed next month. The unit was stood down over the summer months because of reduced Garda numbers but will operate again from November 6th. The Community Response Unit is a small unit of up to…
Over €1.5m in drugs have been seized in Swords this year, Senior Gardaí have revealed. At the public meeting of the Joint Policing Committee this week in Swords, Superintendent Ronan Barry outlined how an increase in searches and detections in the Swords area has led to €1,594,960 worth of drugs being seized. At the meeting…
Senior Gardaí will discuss crime and issues of concern in the Swords area this Wednesday in the Carnegie Court Hotel. The public meeting of the Joint Policing Committee will bring together senior gardaí, representatives of Fingal County Council, and relevant agencies to explain their work and answer questions from the public. The meeting will start…
The River Valley Rathingle Community Centre have organised a public meeting to discuss recent anti-social behaviour in the area. This comes after a sensory room that the community centre had created, to benefit local kids with additional needs, was vandalised. Thankfully due to the committed efforts of the staff at the centre the facility has…
Crime statistics for the last three months see a significant fall in burglaries in the Swords area. Senior Gardaí have credited the establishment of the new Community Response Unit in Swords for the drop. The figures, made available to the Fingal Joint Policing Committee, show 15 burglaries in recent months with 32 recorded for the…
A new four-person community garda unit to tackle the anti-social behaviour has been launched in Swords as a temporary measure. Superintendent Ronan Barry told the Fingal Joint Policing Committee that the new unit has been working to deal with issues relating to attacks on young people and issues in the Ward River Valley. These issues…
A number of parents from Swords told harrowing stories of their teenager or child being assaulted by other young people in the Swords area. The testimonies came at the public meeting of the Fingal Joint Policing Committee this week, where senior Gardai and officials of Fingal County Council hear the concerns of the public and…
Next week there are two public meetings happening that are important for the people of Swords. The first is the Joint Policing Committee (JPC) public meeting for the Swords/Malahide sub-district which is taking place on Wednesday, October 5th. This is where Senior Gardaí and Executives of Fingal County Council answer questions and discuss with the…
Burglaries in Swords have increased by 146% between 2021 and 2022, Garda figure have revealed. A total of 64 burglaries have been recorded this year in Swords compared with just 26 for the same period in 2021. This increase is an outlier in the Fingal DMR North region as burglaries have remained static in Malahide,…