Independent.ie 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’
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 ‘Ponch’ Poncherello aired weekly on RTE .