RTE News - Conroy increases armed patrols in Dublin:
The Conroy in this article is the Irish police commissioner. When I was growing up in Ireland, we never had armed police. I understand that times change, but it's too bad it had to be like this.
"Conroy increases armed patrols in Dublin
12 April 2006 09:06
The Garda Commissioner, Noel Conroy, has increased the number of armed patrols on the streets of Dublin to tackle gangland crime.
Speaking at the conference of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors in Killarney in Co Kerry, he said more armed gardai would be assigned wherever or whenever necessary.
However, he said this diversion of resources to tackle drug-related gun crime meant detection rates, though still comparably high, were falling.
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Mr Conroy also said guns coming in from eastern Europe and with drug shipments were a serious problem and that gunmen and those involved in drug crime - even as victims - gave no help or co-operation to investigating gardai.
Criminals, he said, were shooting innocent people as well as each other.
Also outlining some of the measures gardai were adopting to tackle road deaths, he said more forensic traffic investigators were now being trained and he promised that a serious collision unit was being established in every region."
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