Senior gardaí: Injecting centre reports 'way off the mark'

Senior gardaí have described reports that they are opposed to government plans for a pilot drug injecting centre as “way off the mark”.

Senior gardaí: Injecting centre reports 'way off the mark'

Senior gardaí have described reports that they are opposed to government plans for a pilot drug injecting centre as “way off the mark”, writes Cormac O'Keeffe.

But sources did repeat previously articulated concerns regarding the policing of the new centre and the need for “legal clarity” on where drug possession is decriminalised and where it remains illegal.

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