Garda targets to cut crime and boost ratings

Gardaí have been set targets this year to cut crime, increase victim satisfaction, and improve public ratings, in the first such policing demands on the organisation.

It comes as a Garda operation yesterday prevented an “imminent attack and saved lives” after up to 20 firearms linked to the Kinahan crime cartel were seized.

In a separate operation, gardaí arrested a man in relation to the murder by the Kinahan cartel of Eddie Hutch in Dublin’s north inner city last February.