He says the local community in south Boston – “a real poor neighbourhood” – rallied around and helped finish the raising of the Evans boys. The commission, headed by another former Boston police commissioner Kathleen O’Toole, said no value was placed by the Garda in community policing, saying this had to change. SimilaritiesWhen Evans speaks of his career the similarities between policing in Boston and the challenges now facing the Garda are uncanny. It’s all about humanising the police,” Evans says of why community policing is the Boston Police Department’s main activity. “A lot of police organisations say they have community policing, but they only have it in name.

Source: The Irish Times October 20, 2018 06:00 UTC