Policing Plan 2024 is the third and final annual plan produced by An Garda Síochána under our 2022 – 2024 Strategy Statement. Building on the progress and momentum of the past two years, Policing Plan 2024 sets out how we intend to realise our mission of Keeping People Safe through the delivery of responsive effective and efficient services that meet the needs of our communities, while moving forward on our path of service, growth, innovation and continuous improvement. Policing Plan 2024 has been developed in a context of challenge and change across Irish society, reflected in the nature of the new, evolving and unpredictable demands facing both An Garda Síochána and the wider public service. This Policing Plan recognises those challenges, and sets out how we will ensure that we have the agility and focus to support community safety, prevent and detect crime, safeguard victims, help to make our roads safer, and protect the security of the State. It outlines how we will achieve this as an organisation that values and enables our personnel through investments in supports, systems, services and sustainable ways of working.

Pillar 1 Continue to strengthen connections with communities, working in partnership to keep people safe

1.1 Work in partnership to develop sustainable solutions to address community safety concerns, including the harm caused by drugs

Through the delivery of a consistent, visible and engaged Community Policing service at local and national level, we will increase public safety and maintain the trust and confidence of our communities. By proactively addressing sources of harm in our communities, specifically the proliferation of drugs and serious recidivist offending, we will embed a preventative, proactive, problem-solving approach to keeping people safe. Listening to, engaging with and cultivating relationships across all communities will ensure that we understand their needs, and that victims of crime, particularly victims of hate crime, can have trust and confidence in An Garda Síochána. Keeping People Safe 11 We will focus on preventing harm and increasing safety in our communities, enabled by the principles of community policing and alignment to the organisation’s Operating Model. We will work with our partners to implement a revised model for offender management, and will develop a targeted plan to meet the policing needs of younger people. We will combat the harm inflicted on  communities by drugs, in collaboration with partner agencies, by progressing actions under the National Drug Strategy, ‘Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery 2017-2025’.