On Duty: Refections on a Life in the Guards

by John O'Driscoll

Overview

Between 2016 and his retirement in 2022, Assistant Garda Commissioner John O'Driscoll was the public face of garda operations targeting organised crime. This put him at the centre of a long-running quest to bring about the demise of the Kinahan drug cartel, culminating in US sanctions being imposed – an unprecedented development, spearheaded by O'Driscoll. But the Kinahans were just some of the many notorious drug dealers and criminals O'Driscoll successfully brought to book. During his tenure at Dublin's Store Street, he was tasked with reckoning with the heroin epidemic, and his unique approach to community policing got to the root of the power of infamous criminals like Tony Felloni, Michael Cronin and Derek Dunne, stripping them of their assets. Spanning a period of unprecedented change that challenged the very nature of fighting crime in Ireland, On Duty, the first ever memoir of an Assistant Garda Commissioner, offers a unique insight into policing at the highest level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781804582510
Publisher:	Gill Books
Publication date:	10/31/2024
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

John O’Driscoll is a former Assistant Commissioner for Special Crime Operations. From the northside of Dublin, he joined the Garda Síochána in 1981 and was assigned to Fitzgibbon Street Garda Station in the north inner city. He went on to serve in the Garda National Immigration Bureau, the Garda National Drug Unit and the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and was also posted in Swinford, County Mayo, and Rathangan, County Kildare. He retired from the Garda Síochána in June 2022 after 41 years. On his retirement, Justice Minister Helen McEntee said that he had ‘served the State with integrity and distinction’ and that he ‘embodied the finest tradition of An Garda Síochána’.