To date Gardaí have arrested 12 persons as part of this ongoing operation.
Those arrested include:- 3 for Drunk Driving, 6 for Driving While Disqualified, 2 for Drugs and Offensive Weapons related matters.
A 29-year-old Lithuanian national was also arrested in respect of a European Arrest Warrant. He was arrested in the west Dublin area this afternoon (23/11/2015) and is expected to appear before a sitting of the High Court (C.C.J. 21) tomorrow morning 24th November 2015.
A total 26 vehicles have been impounded.
The operation is ongoing and further updates will follow.
The previous press release below refers.
Garda Press Office
Operation TRIVIUM is a TISPOL led, pan European operation being held over a 24 hour period from the 23rd to 24th November 2015.
• Operation targeting organised crime and criminals from foreign countries who are operating within Ireland and are in turn utilising the road network to target local communities
• Numerous checkpoints being held around the country
• Target offenders utilising all available legislation
• Part of multi-national co-operation network
Gardaí will be utilising the 24 hour period to detect, disrupt and deter criminals, many of whom are operating as part of organised criminal gangs.
The operation has four key objectives:
1. Disrupting criminality through denying foreign national mobile organised crime groups the use of the road; 2. Increasing the understanding and intelligence of foreign national offenders from a crime and counter terrorism perspective; 3. Enhancing levels of trust and confidence in local communities through delivering enforcement and educational activity that is designed to 'tackle criminality not the community'; and 4. Ensuring that all avenues of legislation both criminal & civil are considered to disrupt, deter and detect unlawful behaviour.
These objectives will be underpinned by the following guiding principles:
• Making best use of the legislation and tactics available; • Maximising partner intervention; • Accounting for the need to achieve value for money in the action taken; • Prioritising targeted action against those who have committed the most serious offences, or who present the greatest risk to the public; • Emphasizing that the operation targets the criminals, not the community.
Trivium is a multi-agency road policing operation designed to tackle foreign national offenders and indigenous travelling criminals who utilise the road network to target local communities, many of whom are part of organised criminal gangs.
Up to 3.30pm, for today's operation there have been:
84 Pulse incidents created
13 vehicles seized under Section 41 of the Road Traffic Act
8 arrests including, 2 drink driving, 1 drug possession, 4 disqualified drivers,
1 contrary to firearms.
Note:
The last TRIVIUM operation was a joint UK and Netherlands initiative which took place between 22nd and 28th June 2015 during which the following results were recorded:
• 11,009 vehicles stopped (1298 from ANPR) • 656 vehicles seized • 13,415 people encountered, with 897 arrests • 8455 enforcement actions • 1801 intelligence reports submitted • Additional staff provided by Europol, Netherlands, Romania and Lithuania.
