{"id":18758,"date":"2024-12-09T15:41:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T15:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ni-and-roi-police-forces-publish-joint-cross-border-strategy\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T15:41:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T15:41:40","slug":"ni-and-roi-police-forces-publish-joint-cross-border-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ni-and-roi-police-forces-publish-joint-cross-border-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"NI and ROI police forces publish joint cross-border strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Police services in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have published a joint cross-border policing strategy.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The cross-border initiative between the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is designed to map out the approach the two forces will undertake from 2025-2027.  <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Speaking in County Cavan, PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher and Garda  Commissioner Drew Harris outlined key areas they plan to collaborate on. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">These include &#8216;cross-border incidents&#8217;, &#8216;road safety&#8217;, and &#8216;victims and the vulnerable&#8217;. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Other topics which will be explored as part of the strategy are &#8216;partnerships in our communities&#8217; and &#8216;wellness and work-life balance&#8217;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The conference includes addresses from both the PSNI and the Garda, along with external expert speakers. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In 2023, <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-67440043\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\">a cross-border police operation<!-- --><\/a> was initiated in an attempt to  tackle a rise in the number of road deaths on the island of Ireland.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">As part of this operation, the the two forces conducted a joint checkpoint at the   border between counties Donegal and Londonderry.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">At the time, garda\u00ed (Irish police) said the operation, at Bridgend, County Donegal, was the first of its kind between the two forces.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Ch Insp Graham Dodds, head of PSNI road policing, told BBC News NI the joint operation was all about deterring and detecting speeding.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9wl5qnqx2wo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police services in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have published a joint cross-border policing strategy. The cross-border initiative between the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is designed to map out the approach the two forces will undertake from 2025-2027. Speaking in County Cavan, PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[4115,3759,1653,599,125,7306,5132],"class_list":["post-18758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-crossborder","tag-forces","tag-joint","tag-police","tag-publish","tag-roi","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18760,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758\/revisions\/18760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}