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A camera system in Borris-in-Ossory
Community led plans to install CCTV camera systems on the streets of Roscrea and Borrisokane to help Gardaí police the rural towns are progressing too slowly according to local elected representatives.
Last month top ranking Gardaí from Tipperary attended a meeting in the Garda Commissioners office in Dublin to further progress a Garda camera system planned for Clonmel - but no progress was made for Roscrea and Borrisokane.
Despite over four years waiting and several promises of major progress on the immediate horizon, the Roscrea and Borrisokane systems urgently need to be authorised to proceed by the Garda Commissioner's office, local Councillors say.
The issue was discussed at a meeting of the Tipperary Joint Policing Committee last week, when Chief Superintendent for the Tipperary Garda Division, Colm O'Sullivan, said he had no update on Roscrea and Borrisokane after attending the meeting in Dublin.
Chairman of the Joint Policing Committee, Noel Coonan, said the schemes are community driven by volunteers and "there is a huge degree of frustration in those communities".
"The wheels seem to turn slowly and there is frustration about the lack of progress. We've been debating this ad-infinitum for the last four years and we don't seem to be making any progress", he said.
When quizzed about the lack of progress by the Chairman, Noel Coonan, Chief Superintendent O'Sullivan said there will be "news shortly".
This prompted Cllr. Gery Darcy to request an exact timeline for the installation of the systems.
"If I go back to Borrisokane and tell them 'progress has been made and there will be news shortly' I'll be shot", Cllr. Darcy said.
"They have all the groundwork done. They have all the shops and all the businesses on-board and they are all volunteers and they are extremely frustrated waiting", he explained.
"I can't put a timeline on it today, but I will make enquiries and be back as soon as possible", Chief Superintendent O'Sullivan said.
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