Kilkenny gardaí are disputing recently released Government figures which said there has been a significant reduction in the number of gardai working in the local drug unit. Figures released by the Department of Justice last week, show just one Garda and one sergeant are working in the Kilkenny/ Carlow drug unit at the current time, […]
The number of drug crimes recorded in Kilkenny has increased by close to 50% in just four years. The figures come from the Central Statistics Office’s recent analysis of drug crimes recorded in each of Ireland’s Garda stations from 2015 to the end of 2018. The results, in general, reveal a year-on-year increase in recorded […]