Letters to the Editor: Garda boss links rise in number of thefts to high inflation levels

An activist demonstrates near the entrance of the Sharm El Sheikh International Convention Centre, during the Cop27 climate summit opening. Picture: Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

The garda commissioner’s statement that the rise in the number of thefts is linked to the cost-of-living crisis is an astonishing claim to make and one that needs to be challenged.

Never in all my years of service have I ever heard a senior manager in An Garda Síochána conflate the two.