Burglaries up 38% during first five months

From this week’s Galway City Tribune – Burglaries jumped by well over a third while theft from vehicles spiralled by nearly 100 per cent in the first five months of the year.

Another worrying feature of the same period – half of it while under lockdown due to the pandemic – was an 82 per cent hike in the number of breaches of domestic violence barring orders.

In an update on crime statistics given to the Galway City Joint Policing Committee this week, Chief Superintendent Tom Curley told members burglaries increased from 74 to 102 between January and May of this year compared to the same period last year – a jump of 38 per cent.

Theft from vehicles went from 49 to 97 – which was mainly as a result of youths trying cars to see if they were unlocked and stealing anything they could get their hands on – cash, cameras and laptops was the main targets but they were also thieving wing mirrors and bumpers.

Despite shops being closed for most of that time, shoplifting grew by 8 per cent. The number of incidents of begging recorded by Gardaí went from six to 27.
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