COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF JOINT POLICING COMMITTEE

Friday, September 11, 2009

QUESTION NO.

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

That this committee requests a report on the number of prosecutions for offences relating to graffiti broken down per Garda station area.

REPLY:

Graffiti is classified as criminal damage in Garda records and there is no specific offence as Graffiti making the generation of these statistics difficult. Graffiti posed a major problem in both Ronanstown and Lucan in the last few years which led to two initiatives in Lucan in the schools where persons were identified as causing the damage and dealt with under caution. In Ronanstown in conjunction with An Pobal and SDCC the graffiti program was introduced. The Gardai identified locations which had been damaged by Graffiti and took photographs and mapped locations. This was then submitted to An Pobal and they dispatched a clean up crew within a few hours. The graffiti was removed and the area painted with barrier paint which prevented the surface being damaged again.