Gardaí to advise businesses on security

GARDAÍ are offering businesses in Cork city security checks following a 10% rise in burglaries in the first three months of this year.

Concern has been raised that petty crime is on the increase, because a similar rise in house break-ins has been recorded during the same period, and thefts from parked cars are up 19%.

Superintendent Barry McPolin said Garda statistics showed that 75% of burglaries at commercial premises happened during the day.