Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána
10:20 am
Mr. Martin Callinan:
These criminal gangs tend to operate in the large urban centres. Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Sligo are the hotbeds for some of these people and the principals that operate within the groups. Beyond that, they have tentacles through social networking, relatives etc. in various counties. Every county in Ireland is represented within these groups, but the central pockets, containing the strategists and tacticians, who formulate the activities of the group, are in the major urban centres.
I have to be very careful here. RTE has been very good to us over many years in terms of helping us.
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