Gardaí miss target to cut road fatalities and property crime

Gardaí targeted almost 270 organised crime gangs last year in nearly 2,000 operations and intelligence investigations.

More than €7m was demanded from crime bosses in 2013 and over €5m was collected and handed over to the State.

However, gardaí failed to meet their own internal targets to increase detection rates for violent property crime and cut road deaths.