{"id":504840,"date":"2026-06-17T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504840\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:10:10","slug":"over-40-people-to-appear-in-court-in-relation-to-dublin-shoplifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504840\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 40 people to appear in court in relation to Dublin shoplifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40 people are due in a court in Dublin on Wednesday following an operation targeting shoplifters.<\/p>\n<p>It was part of a targeted initiative in the south east of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Since early May, Garda\u00ed have been working with local shops and businesses across southeast Dublin to identify suspects involved in retail crime, initiate prosecutions and bring offenders before the courts.<\/p>\n<p>It has led to a dedicated unit being set up, and 41 people are due before D\u00fan Laoghaire District Court this morning charged with shoplifting and other associated offences.<\/p>\n<p>Another 15 juvenile suspects have been identified and referred through the Youth Diversion Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Superintendent David Kennedy, DMR East, said: &#8220;An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na in the DMR East will continue to focus on retail crime using intelligence-led policing to disrupt criminal networks, prevent thefts, and, importantly, support local retailers and businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phase two of the crackdown on retail crime in the area is to begin in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 40 people are due in a court in Dublin on Wednesday following an operation targeting shoplifters.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-504840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}