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20/10/2015
Funding Secured For 260 New Garda Vehicles
More than €5m has been secured for An Garda Síochána to purchase 260 new vehicles.
Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald announced the funding, with the new vehicles to be bought before the end of 2015.
The new investment will provide the Gardaí with additional high powered vehicles; marked and unmarked patrol cars; cars for surveillance and covert operations; motorcycles for high visibility road policing, and vehicles for public order policing.
The investment comes in addition to almost €29m invested since 2012 in renewing the Garda fleet. So far this year, 370 new vehicles have come on stream including new specialised vehicles.
Minister Fitzgerald said: "This investment will support Gardaí to carry-out more visible and responsive patrols of motorways and rural communities, increased surveillance of criminal gangs and enhanced night-time public order policing in our cities and provincial towns.
"In total, this Government will have invested over €34 million in new Garda vehicles since 2012."
(MH/JP)
Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald announced the funding, with the new vehicles to be bought before the end of 2015.
The new investment will provide the Gardaí with additional high powered vehicles; marked and unmarked patrol cars; cars for surveillance and covert operations; motorcycles for high visibility road policing, and vehicles for public order policing.
The investment comes in addition to almost €29m invested since 2012 in renewing the Garda fleet. So far this year, 370 new vehicles have come on stream including new specialised vehicles.
Minister Fitzgerald said: "This investment will support Gardaí to carry-out more visible and responsive patrols of motorways and rural communities, increased surveillance of criminal gangs and enhanced night-time public order policing in our cities and provincial towns.
"In total, this Government will have invested over €34 million in new Garda vehicles since 2012."
(MH/JP)
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