Gardaí hold suspected killer in Europe-wide operation to crackdown on crime

Garda participation in a Europe-wide operation targeting organised crime resulted in the arrest of a Lithuanian man in west Dublin on foot of a European arrest warrant yesterday.

“Operation Trivium 5” was mounted by officers from 12 jurisdictions across Europe on behalf of TISPOL, the network of European traffic police forces. The operation was targeting the use of road networks by criminals, as well as human trafficking, property crime, drugs trafficking and other crimes such as shoplifting, fraud and metal theft.

Here the operation, which continues today, saw gardaí mount checkpoints and patrols across the country as well as launching a series of covert operations targeting foreign and indigenous criminals based on intelligence built up at local and national level. They particularly wanted to target criminals using the road network to attack local communities.