Issue Date: 15 February 2022
I am delighted to have my term as Commissioner of An Garda Síochána extended until June 2025 by the Government today.
It is a great privilege and honour to be Garda Commissioner.
During the last four years, the organisation has made great progress in becoming an efficient and effective human-rights focused policing and security service.
In particular, the work by Garda personnel during the Covid-19 pandemic was a real demonstration of the organisation’s commitment to keeping people safe through our ethos of policing by consent and in partnership with communities.
However, while we have made many significant changes to the organisation in recent years, the pandemic also meant that we had to put on hold some of the elements of our reform programme that we had planned to introduce.
I look forward to leading An Garda Síochána in providing the best possible policing and security service to the people of Ireland.
