Senior Cork garda urges families intimidated over drugs debts to come forward

Chief Superintendent Tom Myers told the Irish Examiner that he is hearing more and more reports of drug-related intimidation in recent months

Chief Supt Tom Myers: 'I am aware from my former life in the drug unit that it is very intimidating for families of people who owe drug money to drug dealers and the intimidation can be a very, very serious matter.' Picture: Denis Minihane

Cork City’s most senior garda has appealed to families who have been subjected to intimidation because of drugs debts to report the incidents to gardaí.

Chief Superintendent Tom Myers made the appeal after the issue was raised at the Cork City Joint Policing Committee (JPC) by Sinn Féin TD Thomas Gould.