Drugs debt scheme likely to go nationwide

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has said a project aimed at helping families being intimidated over drugs debts is succeeding, with the Government saying the scheme could be expanded across the country.

The commissioner said more was being done to help families threatened by drug dealers, often targeting a family over relatively small debts accrued by other members of the family and which in the past may have been written off.

“Intimidation has been ongoing since God’s time and the real issue is to have the trust and confidence in the guards to come to the guards,” he said.