your correct on that score . Williams is a mouth piece for the detective unit , not the plod on the street . Very often hes playing one crim off another and then forcing the other one to act up to boost his cred in return . Its the plod on the street which has to scrape up the mess afterwards . If he wanted to write seriously about crime and policing in ireland hed report on substandard and unsanitary community garda stations with feck all manpower unable to deal with endless burglaries on ordinary citizens and the like , much less sexy of course instead of glamourising these gangsters and the caped crusaders .

Hed also tackle the issue of his detective chums protecting drug dealers and using them only as a means to secure numerous convictions against foolish young irish people they lured into their web with promises of easy money simply in order to ensure the detectives got promotions and plenty of scalps . While letting drug dealers import and sitribute massive amounts of drugs , make massive amounts of money , ruin many lives . And detectives even tipping their drug dealer aaccomplices off when law abiding members of the public were so foolish as to report the activities of drug dealers and the whereabouts of their drug stashes to gardai . Thinking the detectives were their to help the ordinary law abiding people and maybe they were anti drugs and drug dealers or something .

But williams is plain and simple a liar , and a well paid one. More often than not a writer of fiction .