{"id":243783,"date":"2026-01-14T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243783\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:36:09","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243783\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Rocky Mountains\u2019 Irish Police Chief: \u2018I would take holidays from my job in Ireland, fly over, do my firearms test and that night I was out driving a police car\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nCo 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 town\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Greg Daly pictured after his promotion to Police Chief in August 2016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ef3323b9-0e45-49de-8bc3-25e624ad0e3d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Greg Daly pictured after his promotion to Police Chief in August 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There 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 \u2018Ponch\u2019 Poncherello aired weekly on RTE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dunshaughlin, Co Meath\u2019s Greg Daly, the oldest of three, was no exception; he says the sense of adventure, \u201clarger-than-life characters\u201d and \u201cexciting side of policing\u201d appealed to him. So, clearly, did the idea of physical strength, strategy and discipline; Daly began studying martial arts at 14 and continues to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Co Meath man Greg Daly, who once traded banking in Ireland for a US police badge, talks about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,6361,43,812],"class_list":["post-243783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}