Traffic corps gets boost of 200 extra gardaí

EXTRA traffic corps units are to be created in Cork, Kerry and Limerick with an additional 200 gardaí, the first of whom will come on stream on September 9.

A total of 23 new traffic corps members will be dispatched to units in the region early next month. But senior gardaí have confirmed that they are working towards more than doubling the corps’ strength by 2008.

Last year there were24 dedicated traffic corps officers in the Cork City garda division. This will jump to 59 by 2008. The increase in north Cork will be from 16 to 41 and from 12 to 30 in West Cork.