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It promises to be a room full of arresting and judgmental personalities.
Men and women who work around the clock to make America a safer place for all will gather this Friday evening at the Irish Consulate in Manhattan to mark the second annual “Irish Law and Order 50” awards night.
The gathering, which is being hosted by Irish Consul General Noel Kilkenny, and organized by the Irish Echo with the sponsorship support of Tourism Ireland, will witness the meeting in the same room of an eclectic range of law enforcement officers, prosecutors and judges from around the United States.
The event will feature the presentation of the main honoree award to current Yonkers, NY, police commissioner, Edmund Hartnett.
Hartnett, a New York City native, follows in the footsteps of last year’s inaugural event chief honoree, former Philadelphia and Miami police chief, Dublin-born John Timoney.
Commissioner Hartnett has led the Yonkers force for almost five years and has presided over a continued drop in crime levels in the Westchester County city during that time.
Another highlight of the evening will be the presentation of a lifetime achievement award to Brooklyn District Attorney Charles “Joe” Hynes, for many years a legal champion of a number of issues of front rank concern to Irish America.
The Law and Order 50, in its totality, is a tribute to the extraordinary and continuing story of the American Irish in the evolution of a nation governed and guided by the rule of law.
