Garda numbers in Waterford are the highest in the country

Waterford has the highest number of Gardai per capita of anywhere else in the country.

That's according to a report in today's Irish Independent which says there are 296 gardai in the county per 100,000 people

There are just over 12,000 frontline gardai across all divisions in the country when specials units are removed from the figures.

The Carlow / Kilkenny division has the third-fewest gardai per head with just 190 officers per 100,000.