More Gardai will be on the streets of Cork city centre over Christmas.
The Echo report that at a meeting of the Cork City Joint Policing Committee, Superintendent John Deasy said that more Gardai would be on the beat over the Christmas period as part of their policing plan..
Gardai will be assigned from 10am to 8pm in high visibility policing of the city, while a covert unit will deal with shoplifting and drug activity.
A policing plan is also in place for Mahon Point, within the centre itself and also as part of traffic management on the bridge leading to the centre.
