MR John Timoney, former New York Assistant Police Commissioner, said he was "honoured" to be appointed to the new body to review the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the Garda Siochana, writes Joe Carroll from Washington.
Speaking from his home in New York last night, he said that the Minister, Mrs Owen, had been speaking to him earlier in, the day about the appointment.
Mr Timoney thought it would be well worthwhile exercise". As the only outsider, he would have his own ideas to bring to the body which seemed to be a kind of "blue riband panel" of Government officials and people from the private sector.
Mr Timoney was born in Dublin and left in 1961 as a teenager.