A former Assistant Garda Commissioner has been appointed to head up Safe Balbriggan , an initiative to help tackle crime and antisocial behaviour in the town and build a safer community.
The Balbriggan Leadership Group ratified the establishment of a Safe Balbriggan Pillar at its quarterly meeting, last week.
This brings to five the number of pillars that the Leadership Group is responsible for with Safe Balbriggan being added to Local Economy & Enterprise, Community Affairs & Integration, Employment, Education & Training and Public Realm & Placemaking.
At the meeting retired Garda Assistant Commissioner Michael O Sullivan was appointed as the Chair of the Safe Balbriggan Pillar and the Leadership Group agreed terms of reference, membership and works programme for the new Pillar.
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Retired Garda chief reveals bringing down Larry Dunne was greatest achievement during colourful career
14 Dec 2020, 7:30
A RETIRED Garda chief has told how bringing down Larry Dunne was his greatest achievement during his colourful career.
Former Assistant Commissioner Michael O’Sullivan was one of Ireland’s first undercover detectives as part of a unit known as the ‘Mockies’.
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Dunne at court in 1985Credit: RollingNews.ie
The Mockies a group of young cops dressed to look like drug addicts was set up in the early Eighties as Dublin fell into a heroin epidemic.
Dunne was responsible for bringing smack to Ireland and became the undercover unit’s chief target as they sought to bring justice to the thousands of families who had been affected by the drug scourge.
Ireland s first undercover drugs cop has revealed how he infiltrated infamous drug dealer Larry Dunne s network which eventually led to the gangster being caged.
Retired Assistant Commissioner Michael O Sullivan will on RTÉ One on Wednesday night share his experience of how in 1982 he became the first detective to be sent undercover in the fight against drug crime.
His investigations led to a four-year game of cat and mouse, as he set out to bring down Ireland s first heroin baron, Larry Dunne.
In 1982, he was a young detective about to embark on what, for Ireland, was an entirely new type of policing operation. Michael was sent undercover to infiltrate the drug-dealing operation of the country s first drugs baron.