UPDATE: Operation Storm kicks off in Carlow with a number of arrests made already
There are 130 Garda personnel involved
Operation Storm kicked off in Carlow on Wednesday with 40 people arrested and ten cars seized.
There were seventeen drugs searches and ten were positive with six people detected for the sale and supply of drugs and four for possession.
One person was arrested for drug driving and there were numerous checkpoints throughout the county right throughout the day.
There were 130 Garda personnel involved in the operation under the guidance of Chief Superintendent of the Carlow/Kilkenny Division, Dominic Hayes, and Superintendent of the Carlow District, Aidan Brennan.
As well as 26 student Gardaí on a training day from Templemore there were uniformed Gardaí, detectives, the Carlow/Kilkenny Divisonal Drugs Unit and they were backed up by the Armed Support Unit, national support services, Mounted Unit and Dog Unit.
There were also officials from the Department of Agriculture and Revenue.
The operation focused on crime in the Carlow District.