\u201cExtra Garda resources need to be deployed to the Tallaght area with a proactive approach to tackling knife crime.\u00a0 We need to tackle the culture that sees young people carrying knifes on them as they go about there lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would propose a knife crime awareness and education campaign which would include a type of knife amnesty for the Tallaght area that has been popular in other areas before, where young people are encouraged to give up their weapons to Garda\u00ed without fear of being charged for carrying the weapon.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we can take a chunk of these weapons off the streets then we will be going some way to solving the problem.\u00a0 But we must also, at the same time, educate our young people on the dangers of carrying knifes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sinn F\u00e9in Councillor Se\u00e1n Crowe has called for extra Garda resources to be deployed in the Tallaght area after four people were stabbed in Kiltalawn last night.<\/p>\n
Councillor Crowe, a member of the South Dublin County Policing and Justice Forum, said knife crime in Tallaght is a particular problem and it\u2019s only a matter of time before a fatality occurs if action is not taken.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cFour people were stabbed in the Kiltalawn area of Tallaght last night.\u00a0 While none of the victims injuries are believed to be life threatening knife crime in Tallaght is a growing problem and it is only a matter of time before a fatality occurs if action is not taken.<\/p>\n
\u201cI highlighted this problem back in March after a three separated stabbings took place over three consecutive nights in the Jobstown area.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile many of these attacks would not be reported to the Garda\u00ed for fear of retaliatory attacks the local accident and emergency department in Tallaght Hospital would be fully aware of the scale of the problem particularly at weekends.\u00a0 There needs to be a formal structure put in place for communication between the hospital and the Garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}