Kerry gardaí have the highest crime-solving rates in the country

New CSO data shows that Dublin East has the lowest success rate in solving crimes.

The data for 2019 shows that Cork City garda district has a 50% rate of crime detection. File Picture

Gardaí in Kerry have the highest success rate in solving crime, while their colleagues in Dublin have the lowest crime detection rates in the Republic.

Figures obtained from the Central Statistics Office show a wide variety in detection rates across the country’s 28 garda divisions for crime reported in 2019 with 46% of all crimes reported nationwide in 2019 — almost 225,000 offences — marked as solved.