The Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau has been cracking down
Dozens of guns, thousands of bullets and millions in drugs and cash have been seized since the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) was established, according to Assistant Commissioner John O'Driscoll.
The seizures have all taken place in the two years since the gangland feud in Dublin made the national agenda.
Speaking to Newstalk’s Paul Williams, Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll said the force is making real progress in its crackdown on gangland crime.
Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll said officers have foiled a host of attempted murders in the years since.
“What we are talking about here is in the gangland scenario – 52 threats to life,” he said.
“In some cases, we have actually arrested people as they were fully armed, wearing balaclavas and in close proximity to where they intended to commit a murder.
“This is what we will allege in a number of the cases where people are before the courts at the moment.”
“Of course these people stand innocent until we can prove what we allege – but these are the circumstances of the arrests that we have made.”
He added that gardaí have seized, “eight machine guns, 47 handguns, seven shotguns, seven assault rifles and two ordinary rifles since the establishment of the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau.”
