A new Chief Superintendent has been appointed to the Clare Garda Division.
Chief Superintendent Michael Gubbins, who has most recently worked as the head of the Garda’s Cyber Crime Bureau, will officially take up the position later this month.
There are other changes afoot for policing here too.
A native of Kilmallock in Co. Limerick, Chief Superintendent Michael Gubbins has 30 years of experience in the force, and holds an expertise in the area of computer forensics and cyber crime.
He has served as the Detective Superintendent in charge of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau since September 2016.
He has been stationed across Dublin for most of his career and he gave technical evidence in the 2008 trial of Enniswoman Sharon Collins, who was convicted of soliciting a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons.
He will formally take office as the Head of the Clare Garda Division on March 25th, filling a role that has been vacant since the beginning of the year and the retirement of former Chief Superintendent John Kerin.
There’ll be other changes too to the senior ranks of the Clare Garda Division.
Detective Inspector John Ryan has been promoted to Superintendent, and is will transfter to Garda HQ in the Phoenix Park.
While An Garda Siochana has also confirmed that a new computer aided dispatch control room, situated in Galway, now has responsibility for deploying mobile resources across the Western Region, including the Clare Garda Division.
CCTV, non-999 phone calls and local resources are still being managed at Ennis Garda Station but the move comes at a time of speculation about the future of policing in Clare, and a possible amalgamation with Galway which could see more policing operations directed from there.
