Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau

The Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (DOCB or GNDOCB) is a specialist national unit within the Garda Síochána, Ireland's national police service, responsible for proactively targeting and investigating drug trafficking and serious organised crime both within Ireland and outside the jurisdiction.[1] The Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau has a complement of 111 Detective Gardaí and a total staff of up to 400 officers, all of whom are armed.[2][3]

The bureau is based at Dublin Castle, Dublin 2 and also has offices at the Garda Dublin Metropolitan Region (DMR) Headquarters at Harcourt Street, Dublin City. It is headed by a Detective Chief Superintendent and four Detective Superintendents, reporting to the Assistant Commissioner in charge of the Garda National Support Services.[4]

Detective Chief Superintendent Seamus Boland is the current head of the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau.[5]

  1. ^ "An Garda Síochána - Drugs". Garda Síochána. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  2. ^ Byrne, Cormac "Over 400 now in garda drug war frontline" Herald.ieMay 7, 2011 [1] Archived 2021-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "A supervised injection centre could complement the work of the new drugs super unit in cleaning up our streets- Byrne". Fine Gael. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  4. ^ O'Keeffe, Cormac (27 February 2015). "'Super' Garda units to tackle child abusers and gangland". Irish Examiner. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  5. ^ Schiller, Robin (13 October 2022). "Daniel Kinahan: High Court grants order for CAB to seize Dublin mansion from cartel boss". Irish Independent. Retrieved 3 January 2023.