Donegal Gardai are stepping up their plans to set up an active Coastal Watch Programme around the local coastline.
Earlier this year it was revealed that local Gardai are to actively set in place more measures to set up the scheme.
Coastal Watch is a multi-agency initiative aimed at the prevention and detection of illegal drug importation, promoting vigilance from coastal communities and the wide range of organisations and agencies that operate at sea and along our Coast and harbours.
The campaign is to be led by local Garda Inspector Paul McGee.
It follows the discovery of millions of euro of cocaine off the Donegal shoreline at Fanad and Dunfanaghy last July.
Yesterday a joint agency meeting was held in Killybegs between An Garda Síochána and Killybegs Coast Guard to discuss the development of Coastal Watch in Donegal.
A Garda spokesperson said “We continue to work in partnership with other agencies to deter crime along our coastline and waterways and to keep rural communities safe.”
Among those who attended the meeting were Chief Superintendent Goretti Sheridan, Superintendent Karen Duffy, Inspector Rosaleen Logue, Sergeant Carol Doherty as well as Killybegs COastguard members Paul Gill, Seamus Mc Crudden and Roisin McBride.