Garda boss flags rise in online crime as concern in new strategy

Commissioner and Policing Authority publish strategy and policing plans

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris: Keeping people safe and protecting those at risk and victims of crime is the organisation’s central mission. Picture: Conor Ó Mearáin 

The rise in online crime and crimes against vulnerable people will feature prominently in the coming years, the Garda Commissioner has said.

Drew Harris said keeping people safe and protecting those at risk and victims of crime is the organisation’s central mission.