New Garda rosters help to cut street crimes

Serious assaults, public order offences and drunkenness are down significantly in Cork City and county. And senior gardaí believe it’s due to more officers on the streets at peak times.

Although they have yet to fully analyse crime figures across the region, chiefsuperintendent Tom Hayes told a Joint Policing Committee (JPC) meeting yesterday statistics would suggest newly introduced rosters are having an impact.

From Jun-Aug 2012, there were 111 assaults causing harm but, during the same period this year, the figure fell to 78.