Seizures by gardaí almost double in just two years

THE amount of heroin seized by gardaí in Cork has almost doubled in two years.

The Cork City Divisional Drugs Unit made 105 seizures of the lethal substance in 2007. According to the most recent figures, detectives have already made 48 separate heroin seizures in the first quarter of this year alone.

If this detection trend continues for the next six months, the unit is on course to make close to 200 seizures this year.