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22/11/2007
New Commissioner Was Top Anti-Gang Detective
The newly installed Irish police chief is a former senior detective who was in charge of the crackdown on gangland bosses after the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin.
Ex-Deputy Commissioner Fachtna Murphy succeeds Noel Conroy who has stepped down as the Republic's most senior police officer after more than four decades in the force.
Newly installed Commissioner Murphy was previously the first chief of the Criminal Assets Bureau - set up just over 10 years ago to put organised crime gangs out of business – a move that followed public revulsion over the murder of Ms Guerin.
The Cork-born Garda chief ran the Bureau for three years before being appointed Assistant Commissioner in 1999 and later as Deputy Commissioner in charge of Operations.
Mr Murphy, originally from Timoleague in Co Cork, has held a number of uniformed and detective posts since joining the force in 1967.
He has served in a number of Dublin divisions as well as the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation and has directed operations against organised crime gangs, drug trafficking, serious and subversive crime.
(BMcC)
Ex-Deputy Commissioner Fachtna Murphy succeeds Noel Conroy who has stepped down as the Republic's most senior police officer after more than four decades in the force.
Newly installed Commissioner Murphy was previously the first chief of the Criminal Assets Bureau - set up just over 10 years ago to put organised crime gangs out of business – a move that followed public revulsion over the murder of Ms Guerin.
The Cork-born Garda chief ran the Bureau for three years before being appointed Assistant Commissioner in 1999 and later as Deputy Commissioner in charge of Operations.
Mr Murphy, originally from Timoleague in Co Cork, has held a number of uniformed and detective posts since joining the force in 1967.
He has served in a number of Dublin divisions as well as the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation and has directed operations against organised crime gangs, drug trafficking, serious and subversive crime.
(BMcC)
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