€5m taken in van heists so far this year, says McDowell

CRIMINAL gangs have robbed €1.6 million more from security vans in the first three months of this year than in all of 2004, Justice Minister Michael McDowell has revealed.

Yesterday, the minister said that if security companies did not strengthen their procedures in the coming months, he would force such changes on them.

“If they don’t get their act together, I will get their act together for them,” he told the Dáil.