GENERAL CRIME DOWN IN THE COUNTY

Date Published: 21-Dec-2011

Crime in the county is down generally by around 10 percent according to the latest Garda statistics.

At a meeting of the Joint Policing Committee, it was revealed that burglaries in the county are down by almost 10 percent, while various types of theft are down by as much as 16 percent.

While theft from shops and vehicles in County Galway is down significantly since the beginning of the year, there has been a one hundred percent increase in theft from a person.

There were 51 detected incidents of drugs for sale or supply this year, an increase of 6 percent since last year.

Chief Superintendent Donal Ó Cualáin said this is because of the discovery of a number of grow houses.

Almost a million euro worth of drugs were seized in Galway this year – over 800 thousand euro worth of this was cannabis.

However, the number of assaults causing harm jumped this year by 13 and a half percent.

The number of domestic incidents in the county also increased this year.