Local Community Safety Partnership
Cavan Local Community Safety Partnership
The Policing, Security, and Community Safety Act, 2024 and the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024 (Section 114) (Safety Partnership) Regulations 2025 provided for the establishment of Local Community Safety Partnerships in each Local Authority area.
Local Community Safety Partnerships will build on and replace the existing Joint Policing Committees (JPCs) and will provide a forum for State agencies and local community representatives to work together to act on community concerns.
The objective of The Local Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) is to bring the relevant bodies together with communities in a collaborative manner, by focusing on the concerns identified and prioritised by local people.
The Local Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) will aim to prioritise the voice of local people identifying and addressing community safety issues in collaboration with a range of stakeholders including Cavan County Council, local councillors, An Garda Síochána, community representative, business and education representative and statutory agencies including TULSA, and the HSE.
The objective is to bring the relevant bodies together with communities in a collaborative manner, by focusing on the concerns identified and prioritised by local people. The LCSP will be required to develop and implement its own tailored community safety plan and will take a strategic approach to their work so that issues arising can be dealt with in a coordinated manner; addressed collectively by relevant service providers in partnership with the community.
The Policing Security and Community Safety Act 2024, which came into operation on 2 April 2024, places the LCSPs on a statutory footing. Under the Act, 36 Partnerships will be rolled out nationwide covering each Local Authority area.
The Partnerships will be actively supported by a paid local community safety coordinator and administrator, who are resourced by the Department of Justice.
Partnership Members
The membership of the Local Community Safety Partnership will have up to 30 members and comprise:
- Seven elected members of the relevant local authority
- An employee of the relevant local authority
- Members of An Garda Síochána
- One member of staff of the Health Service Executive (HSE)
- One member of staff of TUSLA, the Child and Family Agency
- Other persons, which may include representatives of local community and voluntary bodies, local community interests, or those otherwise possessing relevant experience or expertise.
Treoir/Guidance
- Download: Guidance for the Operation of Local Community Safety Partnerships
- Íoslódáil: Treoir maidir le Comhpháirtíochtaí Sábháilteachta Pobail Áitiúla a Oibriú
- Download: Department of Justice Community Safety Policy Paper
Local Community Safety Plan
Each LCSP will prepare a Local Community Safety Plan
Minutes of meetings
Applications for the 2026 Community Safety Fund Now Open
Applications are invited from community safety initiatives as well as groups co-funded with local authorities, NGOs and community organisations working on issues relevant to community safety and youth justice.
Applications will be open from 13 April until 5pm on 18 May 2026.
The Community Safety Fund:
- allows proceeds of crime to be directed into projects to support and enhance community safety
- ensures that the most appropriate proposals to improve community safety will access the funding they need
- allows best practice on community safety and youth justice to be shared with other partnerships and communities nationally as new proposals are developed
- benefits from the success of An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau in seizing the proceeds of criminal activity
Projects that previously benefited from the fund included initiatives that:
- reduce the fear of crime, improve community safety and feelings of safety
- support the creation of safe and resilient communities
- reduce reoffending
- divert vulnerable individuals away from engagement in criminal behaviour
Grants range between €20,000 – €150,000.
Applications may be submitted by individual organisations, or by a consortium involving two or more organisations where the lead partner is a community organisation, not-for-profit, social enterprise or similar with a remit relevant to community safety and/or youth justice. Applications with innovative approaches will be afforded particular consideration.
Click the following link to view the access the Application From and Guidance document: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-justice-home-affairs-and-migration/collections/community-safety-fund/
Completed application forms must be returned by 5pm on 18 May 2026 to CommunitySafetyFund@justice.ie
More information on Community Safety can be found at: www.gov.ie/communitysafety.
Launch of Cavan LCSP
The newly established Cavan Local Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) held its inaugural meeting in the Hotel Kilmore on Wednesday the 28th of January, 2026.
At the meeting Cllr. John Paul Feeley was elected Chairperson of the Partnership, and Cllr. TP O’Reilly was elected Vice-Chair. Both will serve a three year term from the date of appointment and will lead the partnership in its work to promote safer communities and foster trust and cooperation between all stakeholders.
The Cavan LCSP brings together residents, community organisations, elected members, An Garda Síochána, Cavan County Council, TUSLA, the Health Service Executive (HSE), education and business representatives, and other key stakeholders. The purpose of the LCSP is to provide a collaborative forum where community safety concerns can be identified, discussed, and addressed through coordinated, evidence-based action. LCSPs have been established in every local authority area across Ireland, replacing and expanding upon the work of the former Joint Policing Committees.
Contact Us
Email: LCSP@cavancoco.ie