Meet the Rocky Mountains’ Irish Police Chief: ‘I would take holidays from my job in Ireland, fly over, do my firearms test and that night I was out driving a police car’Co Meath man Greg Daly, who once traded banking in Ireland for a US police badge, talks about his pride at being the police chief in a Colorado mountain townGreg Daly pictured after his promotion to Police Chief in August 2016Sheila Flynn Today at 06:30There was something irresistible about the TV police drama CHiPs and its motorbike-cop heroes to the boyish youths of the 1970s and 80s, their eager faces crowding around family televisions as the exploits of California Highway Patrol Officer ‘Ponch’ Poncherello aired weekly on RTE.

Source: Irish Independent January 14, 2026 05:43 UTC