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FORTY-FOUR SCRAMBLER bikes and off-road vehicles have been seized by gardaí in Limerick.
The seizures were made during a planned operation by gardaí in Limerick city targetting dangerous driving and anti-social behaviour and other off-road vehicles on Tuesday and yesterday.
During the course of the operation, a total of 21 searches were carried out at locations across Limerick city, resulting in the seizure of 44 scrambler bikes and off-road vehicles.
Five individuals were arrested as part of ongoing investigations for suspected endangerment and dangerous driving and other related matters.
The operation involved 30 gardaí, with additional support from the Armed Support Unit (ASU).
“Gardaí in Limerick welcome the new search and seizure powers under the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023, which have given us the capacity to carry out this targeted operation to confront a growing problem in the city,” Superintendent Andrew Lacey said.
“Through our various interactions in JPCs and local community meetings we received a clear message that this behaviour is causing fear, intimidation and distress across the city,” Superintendent Lacey said.
“We are acutely aware of the problem ourselves and can correlate the use of scramblers and e-scooters to criminal activities with a number of detections in the sale and supply of drugs in recent months,” he said.
“With the new powers in place we plan to continue with these operations if those responsible continue to break the law, cause harm to communities or have a detrimental effect on business and traders in the city centre.”
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“Paul O’Brien is CEO of Plan International Ireland. He has been working in the INGO sector for over 35 years”
A professional Charitarian with his begging bowl, this does not take from the suffering of the people in Somalia, but these are the facts on famine from Our World in Data
https://ourworldindata.org/famines#long-term-trends-in-global-famine-mortality
@John Kennedy: A detailed article about the dire state in Somalia, written by someone with feet-on-the-ground experience and that is your only take from it? Nice person you must be.
@John Kennedy: How many people dying of famine is acceptable to you?
@John Kennedy: You really ought to try thinking before typing
@Diarmuid Hunt: Obviously no one wants to see people die of famine but the reality is that, due to climate change, there are large numbers of people now living in areas that can’t sustain them, so what’s the answer? As we are talking about hundreds of millions of people do we take in a couple of hundred thousand people (with little or no education or skills suitable to this country) and pay the required taxes to fund this or what would be your response Diarmuid as it’s easy to spout non platitudes?
@John Kennedy: It inspired me to donate to Plan International. He is absolutely right about simply giving money to people in need. That’s what they need to keep going. Not to trek from A to Z trying to access a voucher for something with five added layers of profit for ‘charitable’ companies.
@The next small thing: My response was to his post of our world in data showing the decline of people suffering from famine – I was not providing a solution but pointing out that posting this was of no benefit. You obviously know from your post that the question is a complex one and an answer of ah sure it’s better than the 1860′s isn’t adequate.
@John Kennedy: hope you can back up your potential “slanderous” post
Sad state of affairs the way wealth is distributed in this crap world.
Why is this under ‘Ukraine news’?
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