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Thu 04 Apr 2007Arrests for drug dealing up 40% on 1998The number of people caught drug dealing has risen by 40 per cent since 1998 while the number of people falling victim to crime has doubled, according to new data from the Central Statistics Office, writes Conor Lally, Crime Correspondent.Fewer people are reporting crime, however. Rates of reporting vandalism, theft and assault were either below or about 50 per cent.