Senior garda lands top policing role at Interpol and will lead world-wide fight against Covid-related crime
A senior garda with a background in counter-terrorism and fraud investigation has been appointed to one of the top law enforcement positions in the world. Detective Inspector Rory Corcoran has been announced as Assistant Director of Interpol’s Organised and Emerging Crime directorate (OEC), at its headquarters in Lyon, France, where he has been seconded from An Garda Síochána for the past two and a half years. The Irishman secured the role after a global recruitment competition, beating off candidates from several of Interpol’s 194 member states, which is seen as a major endorsement of ...