Seamus Kirk
Question:144 Mr. Kirk asked the Minister for Justice the number of drug-related offences committed in Dundalk and Drogheda in each of the last five years. [1901/95]
Written Answers. - Statistics for Drug-related Offences.
Statistics are not compiled in a manner to distinguish those crimes which are drug-related, in the widest interpretation of those terms, from those which are not. It would not always be possible for investigating gardaí to say for certain whether a particular crime was drug-related.
Statistics relating to persons charged with offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act in Dundalk and Drogheda are as follows:
|
Year |
Number of persons charged with offences under the Misuse of Drugs Acts |
|
|
Dundalk |
Drogheda |
|
|
1990 |
1 |
22 |
|
1991 |
7 |
24 |
|
1992 |
2 |
35 |
|
1993 |
4 |
40 |
|
1994 |
23 |
77 |
Figures for 1994 are provisional and subject to confirmation.