Introduction to our Community Safety Wardens

One of our Community Safety Wardens, Tadhg McInerney, has written a short article introducing himself and his role as Safety Warden!

Introductions

Hiya! I’m Tadhg, a Community Safety Warden a s part of the Local Community Safety Partnership North Inner City Dublin. Me and the other safety wardens are new to town. It started in 2023 and is actually expanding to a few other cities across Ireland in the next few months. We get our funding from the Department of Justice, we love to use it helping out local communities around the North Inner City. We do this a few different ways, including:

Social Service Signposting

Safety Wardens often find ourselves on the streets, maintaining a ‘physical presence’ for an area's excellent social services. We like to act as liaison officers for services in a community. This includes addiction care, youth services, community groups, public transport and many more. Safety Wardens are quite know-it-alls about their areas, having tons of local knowledge that we use for advising solutions to a social problem.

Social Events

Safety Wardens love a good party, and we take part in social events whenever we can. These events include Lunch-ins for elderly groups, youth group sports days and business orientated events. Safety Wardens earn their spot on the guest list by ensuring the security of these events by reporting on disruption and maintaining peace. Wardens report vandalism, harassment and anti-social behavior through the correct channels to make sure everyone stays safe and has a good time.

Accident and Emergency Assistance

Safety Wardens are trained in First Aid, and while we aren't doctors, we can bridge the gap and ensure the best possible hand off to paramedics upon their arrival. We are qualified in defibrillation, CPR and are qualified to carry Naloxone in the case of an overdose, so rest assured that if an incident were to happen, we are ready to step in!