Update issued on plans for new community safety wardens for Limerick city centre

FOUR new community safety wardens to provide ‘feet on the streets’ of the city centre are undergoing training.

As part of an initiative by Mayor John Moran, the safety wardens aim to provide a visible presence in Limerick.

While they will not have legal powers, they will have a hotline to gardai.

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Paul Moroney, the community safety co-ordinator at the local authority confirmed the staff have been recruited.

“The initiative promotes safer, more inclusive public spaces and stronger community ties,” he told members of the metropolitan district at a council meeting.

The wardens are receiving training to deal with aggressive customers, first-aid, and working alongside the council’s night-time officer.

The community safety wardens will assist at safeguarding vulnerable individuals, tackling violence against women and girls, awareness around drink spiking, bystander interventions and preventing sexual harassment.