Kathleen O’Toole wants to ‘press the reset button’ on An Garda Síochána

In her first appearance as chief drafter of Ireland’s policing blueprint, Kathleen O’Toole came across as the kind of person you might want to be holding the pen.

She is an experienced police chief. She has been brought in by the US Department of Justice to lead reform in certain states.

She is a former boss of the Garda Inspectorate. And she was on the Patten Commission in Northern Ireland — itself the template for the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland.