Report highlights 'inconsistent, non-empathetic' Garda response to drug-related intimidation

Security Correspondent Cormac O'Keeffe examines a Garda Inspectorate report on garda efforts to combat the drugs trade

Gardaí are now taking part in a relatively new multi-agency drug-related intimidation project called DRIVE, which aims to accurately document the scale and nature of the problem and the supports and services needed to provide a better response.

Aoife’s story about her son highlights both the corrosive impact of drug-related intimidation and the need for the State to respond better.

Her account is one of two case studies detailed in a massive piece of research by the Garda Inspectorate on the efforts of An Garda Síochána to combat organised crime.