asked the Minister for Justice if he will consider the advisability of setting up mobile police squads throughout the country to offset the activities of gangsters whose cowardly action against elderly defenceless people, with intent to murder and robbery, is causing such grave anxiety to everyone in this country.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Mobile Police Squads.
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Considerable improvements have been made in recent years in regard to police mobility by the provision of additional motor cars and motor cycles for patrol and other purposes and by the provision of radio equipment. At present there is a patrol car in every one of the 98 police districts in the country and 26 additional cars are allocated to Detective Units. Forty of the cars have radio equipment. The number of motor cycles in the country divisions is 96 now as against 14 in 1958, and it is intended to provide 10 more during the coming year.
The question of increasing further the mobility of the Force continues to receive close attention, and additional mechanical aids will be purchased to the extent found necessary from time to time.