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04/09/2008
'Look Over Your Shoulder' Top Cop Warns Gangs
Irish criminal gangs have been warned to "keeping looking over your shoulder", by one of the country’s top cops, following a Belfast swoop that seized a haul of drugs and guns.
Assistant Commissioner Naci Rice, who heads up Gardai intelligence, said the successful international police operation, earlier this week, had definitely inflicted serious damage to the gang responsible for importing the lethal shipment.
Other underground criminal elements will now be reeling from the seizure, according to Assistant Commissioner Rice, who led the operation.
He said the strategic police action would force gangs to "look over their shoulders" as they plotted their next move.
The officer said the latest haul proved Gardai were undertaking "in your face" tactics to combat serious criminal activity.
Mr Rice said the direction had came from Commissioner Fachtna Murphy, and showed the Irish police force was continuing to work closely with other leading agencies to fight against international crime networks.
Yesterday a police swoop near Dublin airport seized 27 firearms and heroin and cannabis with a street value of over €4m.
A number of men where detained by police, with some believed to have connections with the mastermind behind the Belfast-bound shipment.
Meanwhile, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has revealed the introduction of mobile-phone signal blocking technology in Irish prisons is proving difficult, due to the implications on communication systems used by nearby public services, such as hospitals.
Despite this, the Minister insisted there had been a significant increase in security levels in the country’s prisons.
(PR/KMcA)
Assistant Commissioner Naci Rice, who heads up Gardai intelligence, said the successful international police operation, earlier this week, had definitely inflicted serious damage to the gang responsible for importing the lethal shipment.
Other underground criminal elements will now be reeling from the seizure, according to Assistant Commissioner Rice, who led the operation.
He said the strategic police action would force gangs to "look over their shoulders" as they plotted their next move.
The officer said the latest haul proved Gardai were undertaking "in your face" tactics to combat serious criminal activity.
Mr Rice said the direction had came from Commissioner Fachtna Murphy, and showed the Irish police force was continuing to work closely with other leading agencies to fight against international crime networks.
Yesterday a police swoop near Dublin airport seized 27 firearms and heroin and cannabis with a street value of over €4m.
A number of men where detained by police, with some believed to have connections with the mastermind behind the Belfast-bound shipment.
Meanwhile, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has revealed the introduction of mobile-phone signal blocking technology in Irish prisons is proving difficult, due to the implications on communication systems used by nearby public services, such as hospitals.
Despite this, the Minister insisted there had been a significant increase in security levels in the country’s prisons.
(PR/KMcA)
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