Galway Bay fm newsroom - Gardaí seized over 300-thousand euro worth of illegal drugs in the county in the first five months of 2020.
€140,000 of Heroin, €95,000 worth of cannabis and €71,000 in cocaine has been confiscated by Gardai since January.
That's according to the latest Garda Report which was circulated at a meeting of the County's Joint Policing Committee this week.
The report - which compares months January to May of 2020 to the same period last year - also shows a 52 per cent drop in rape in the county and a 30 per cent drop in non-aggravated sexual assault.
Theft from cars saw an increase of 35 per cent, and burglaries rose by 13 per cent, while theft from shops dropped by 9 per cent.
Fatal road accidents dropped from 2 in 2019 to 1 in 2020, while accidents resulting in serious injury fell by 25 per cent.
Instances of intoxicated driving jumped from 106 last year to 116.
Meanwhile, domestic incidents involving a breach of barring order, safety order and protection order rose by 47 per cent.
