Cork Crime: Beat on the street is still a key to crime prevention
Then garda Trevor Laffan in Cork in 1999. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive
Crime has always been with us and there’s no sign of that changing anytime soon. Crime figures will fluctuate from time to time depending on trends such as joyriding for instance.
It was very fashionable in the 1980s and into the 1990s but as the motor industry became more security conscious, that activity petered out — but now it seems to be making a comeback.
