A Garda specialist unit decided not to inform local Garda members in a regional Garda division of its intentions to carry out a criminal raid because it feared information may leak back to the gang. Its members then travelled across the country, with armed Garda back-up, and commenced its raids against an organised crime gang it was targeting. They form part of a wider inquiry into alleged unusual relationships between a small number of officers and a crime gang in the Munster region. It relates to Garda members disclosing information. The operation also involved personnel attached the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau.

Source: The Irish Times May 16, 2019 23:48 UTC