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Updated 22.58
GARDAÍ HAVE BROUGHT the number of people arrested today to 64 as part of an Operation Thor day of action in the Kilkenny/Carlow Division.
Over 130 gardaí, including 50 student guards, took to the streets of the counties as part of the operation, a multi-strand national anti-crime strategy.
They have arrested a total of 64 people, searched a total of 30 premises, seized €38,000 worth of drugs and cannabis plants, and claimed one firearm, a handgun, in Kilkenny city.
The 64 were arrested in the Kilkenny/Carlow Division – 22 people were arrested and detained under Section Four of the Criminal Justice Act, 9 were charged and taken to special court sittings in Carlow and Kilkenny, and 33 were arrested on foot of committal and penal warrants.
60 checkpoints were also carried out across the two counties.
The day of action, gardaí say, was a “high visibility policing operation” whose main focus is to prevent and detect burglaries and thefts committed throughout the region.
The operation focused in particular on intelligence gathering, warrant executions, searches, arrests, crime detection and crime prevention.
Chief Superintendent Dominic Hayes said:
“The objective of the operation is to disrupt criminals living in and travelling through Kilkenny/Carlow Division. Criminals will be deterred from committing crime in an area perceived as being heavily policed.
This operation will also assist in the detection of criminal offences through proactive policing activities.
The Operation was supported by national and regional units including the Regional Support Unit, Regional Surveillance Unit and the Garda Air Support Unit.
- Additional reporting Cianan Brennan
First published 13.57
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3/10 – I must have been too scared to look.
@Morning Gus: 3/10 also..
Am I right in saying wrong photo with Q1?
@Stephen: ….well the photo shows James Stewart alright , but you are certainly correct it has nothing to do with the Hitchcock movie Rear Window….
This photo seems to from that other James Stewart classic its A Wonderful Life….
@Stephen: Am I right in saying you got in wrong?
9/10 the money in psycho. 40000 a lot in 1960
@Thomas Corrigan: Can play on your mind tho’.
@Thomas Corrigan: same here. I guessed 30k
@Thomas Corrigan: I was torn between 20k and 40k, guessed wrong. Ruined a perfect ten
Yay clever cat 8/10.
Thought I knew more!
6 out of 10 guesses…delighted.
7 out of 10 myself.
@Colm Lambert: Yep. Same for me. Was actually surprised I did so well.
9/10, although that does include a couple of lucky guesses
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