Debate contribution: Neighbourhood Policing
Debate contribution by Mrs Naomi Long on .
- MLA
- Mrs Naomi Long
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 28 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Neighbourhood Policing
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5762104
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The issues to which the Member refers do not all lie with the Department of Justice. Issues such as addiction services are the responsibility not of the Department of Justice but of the Department of Health. Many of those issues are to do with accommodation, housing and social ills that we are dealing with. We take antisocial behaviour and the toll that it takes on neighbouring communities seriously. I am happy to meet the Member to discuss further any interventions that may be possible. I am aware that the policing and community safety partnership (PCSP) receives funding from the PSNI and the Department and ought, as part of its annual plan, to prioritise areas where there are particular sensitivities and complexities. I hope that the Member will ask his colleagues in Belfast City Council how the PCSP splits up that money and invests it in areas that need additional support. I have recently had meetings with elected representatives who, with different lenses, have come to me because they are concerned about the degree to which people in communities feel vulnerable to antisocial behaviour. Fundamentally, however, going back to the core of the matter, without strong neighbourhood policing and strong cooperation between communities and the police, it is incredibly difficult to manage all of that.
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