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Louth/Cavan/Monaghan Division

39 Garda stations, 14,486 recorded incidents in 2025.

Louth/Cavan/Monaghan Division covers 39 Garda stations. In 2025 the Gardaí recorded 14,486 crime incidents across it, which is 5.2% of everything recorded in the State that year. The largest single group was theft and related offences, at 3,201 incidents (22.1%).

14,486
recorded crime incidents, 2025
CSO table CJA11
39
Garda stations in the division
as recorded in the CSO station list
-3.7%
change in recorded incidents, 2003 to 2025
recorded incidents, not convictions

What was recorded, by offence group

Offence groupRecorded 2025 Share of the division
Theft and related offences 3,201 22.1%
Road and traffic offences 2,300 15.9%
Dangerous or negligent acts 2,063 14.2%
Public order and other social code offences 2,007 13.9%
Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences 1,544 10.7%
Damage to property and to the environment offences 1,255 8.7%
Controlled drug offences 662 4.6%
Offences against government, justice procedures and organisation of crime 555 3.8%
Burglary and related offences 551 3.8%
Weapons and explosives offences 148 1.0%
Offences not elsewhere classified 98 0.7%
Robbery, extortion and hijacking offences 92 0.6%
Kidnapping and related offences 10 0.1%
A recorded incident is not a conviction. It is an incident the Gardaí recorded under that heading. It does not establish that an offence was committed, and it says nothing about any individual member of An Garda Síochána.

If you want to complain about a Garda

Complaints about members of An Garda Síochána go to Fiosrú, the Office of the Police Ombudsman, which replaced GSOC on 2 April 2025 on commencement of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024. You can complain to Fiosrú directly. You do not have to go to the Gardaí first, which is a real difference from England and Wales.

Fiosrú decides whether a complaint is admissible, and time limits apply, so it is worth checking the position early rather than after anything else concludes. How the Irish system works in full, or fiosru.ie.

Source. Central Statistics Office, Recorded crime incidents (New Garda Operating Model), table CJA11, 2003 to 2025, CSO updated 25 June 2026. Station-level figures aggregated to division by us. Stations in this division: Ardee, Arva, Bailieboro, Ballinagh, Ballybay, Ballyconnell, Ballyjamesduff, Belturbet, Blacklion, Blackrock, Carlingford, Carrickmacross, Castlebellingham, Castleblayney, Cavan, Clogherhead, Clones, Collon, Cootehill, Dowra, Drogheda, Drumad, Dundalk, Dunleer, Emyvale, Hackballscross, Killeshandra, Kilnaleck, Kingscourt, Laytown, Louth, Monaghan, Mullagh, Omeath, Rockcorry, Scotstown, Shercock, Swanlinbar, Virginia.