Gardaí seize €700m in drugs

Gardaí were involved last year in seizing €700m worth of drugs, targeting 621 crime gangs, and tracking down more than 9,000 missing persons.

The Garda Siochána annual report for 2014 shows that 31 of the people remained untraced at the end of the year, including 16 “high-risk” cases.

The report said the force failed to meet its targets on violent crime, with a rise in assaults and murder threats, while the number of murders was unchanged.