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’.
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...
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