Gardai arrest drug dealers targeting city’s treatment centres for addicts

Gardai in Dublin's two main city centre stations have carried out hundreds of arrests in the past month as part of a campaign to round up drug dealers attracted into the centre by the 18 drug-treatment centres located there.

'Operation Stilts', which has shifted hundreds of dealers from city-centre locations towards the inner suburb areas, was instigated after Dublin Lord Mayor Gerry Breen issued a call for the relocation of the drug-treatment centres which, he said, were magnets for addicts.

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Source: Irish Independent, 07/03/2011