Break-ins surge 54% across Cork City and suburbs

A Garda operation in Dublin against serial burglars resulted in a 54% increase in break-ins to homes in Cork City and suburbs.

Break-ins surge 54% across Cork City and suburbs

That’s according to Chief Supt Michael Finn, who said there were 262 reported burglaries in the Cork City Garda Division between March and May, compared to 170 in the comparable period in 2014.

He told a meeting of the Cork City joint policing committee (JPC) that March was the worst month with 121 burglaries, “double what you’d usually expect”. He said an anti-burglary operation was under way at the time in the capital and this “had displaced them [to Cork]”.

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