'These are not just guys enjoying a ride on them, these bikes are used for serious criminality'

Watch: Gardaí release video of 36 scrambler bikes and e-scooters seized in Dublin in follow-up on similar operation in Limerick

Operation Meacan: A still from the video of the bikes that the Dublin Metropolitan Region South and West divisions of An Garda Síochána seized on Thursday. 

Gardaí have seized 36 electric motorbikes, e-scooters and scrambler bikes in a major crackdown on vehicles suspected of being used to conduct serious criminality and terrorise communities in south and west Dublin.

A combined operation by various unarmed and armed garda units, involving 120 members, swooped on 40 properties on Thursday, targeting local gangs moving drugs and firearms on bikes.