Alcohol fuels 200 street crimes every day

ALMOST 200 alcohol-fuelled street crimes are being committed, on average, every day, garda figures show.

Statistics for Operation Encounter show there were 36,193 public order offences in the six months between August 2003 and February 2004.

In the same period, there were 3,830 assaults, or more than 20 a day. These include 1,188 cases of assault causing harm and 38 cases of assault causing serious harm.