andMr. MacSharry asked the Minister for Justice if in respect of each year from 1969 to 1974 inclusive he will indicate the total number of persons appointed under the Juvenile Liaison Officer Scheme in (a) Dublin city and (b) in each other area in which such officers were appointed.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Juvenile Liaison Officer Scheme.
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I assume that the information which the Deputies want is the number of members who were serving on the Juvenile Liaison Officer Scheme during the years in question and the information which I now give is based on this assumption. In 1969 there were 12 full-time juvenile liaison officers in the Dublin Metropolitan Area; in Cork there were three officers, inclusive of one Ban Garda, who was part-time on the scheme; in Limerick there were two officers, one of whom was a Ban Garda part-time on the scheme, while Waterford had one full-time officer. Clonmel, Drogheda, Dundalk, Galway, Kilkenny, Sligo, Tralee and Wexford each had one juvenile liaison officer part-time. There was no change in these numbers for the years 1970, 1971 and 1972.
Towards the end of 1973 two additional juvenile liaison officers were appointed to the Dublin Metropolitan Area and one additional such officer to Cork. Earlier in that year the Ban Garda who was serving part-time on the scheme in Limerick retired on marriage and was not replaced on the scheme as there was an appreciable fall in the case load of juvenile female offenders at that centre. There has been no change in the number of juvenile liaison officers in 1974.