Drug-debt enforcers 'terrorising families in every county'

Detective Superintendent Sé McCormack told the 'Irish Examiner' no part of society and no part of the country is immune to drug-related intimidation. Picture: Moya Nolan

Drug-related intimidation is now “a challenge to the very authority of the State” with enforcers terrorising communities across Ireland and no social class exempt, a senior garda has warned.

Piles of unused cash — still bank-wrapped — are turning up in garda raids, as frightened families withdraw their savings to hand over to drug debt enforcers, Detective Superintendent Sé McCormack of the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau said.