The second most senior garda officer who has overall responsibility for organised crime, terrorism, investigations and the An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na’s specialist units is to retire.<\/p>\n
Shawna Coxon, who is a native of Canada, took up the position of deputy garda commissioner five years ago when Drew Harris was commissioner.<\/p>\n
She informed Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly today of her intention to retire in November this year after 30 years policing in Ireland and Canada.<\/p>\n
In a statement Commissioner Kelly thanked her for her service and wished her well in the future.<\/p>\n
He said that she had provided exemplary service and was highly regarded internationally for her professionalism, dedication and policing expertise.<\/p>\n
Ms Coxon who has a PHD in criminal law, a masters in criminology and a degree in psychology previously served in a variety of roles in the Toronto police service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second most senior garda officer who has overall responsibility for organised crime, terrorism, investigations and the An…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-561117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561117","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=561117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}