Senior Garda says policing injection centre will be 'challenging'

The pilot medically supervised injecting facility (MSIF) was legislated for in Ireland in 2017 but only cleared a final legal hurdle last January

A senior Garda has said the policing of the country’s first legal drug injecting facility is “going to be challenging”.

Assistant Commissioner Justin Kelly, head of Organised and Serious Crime, said a policing plan has been drawn up, which, he said, has been informed by field trips to Switzerland and France, where similar centres are in operation.