SOME senior ranks in the Garda are to be reshuffled following the Government's approval yesterday of the appointment of Chief Supt Pat Crummey to the position of Assistant Commissioner.
Chief Supt Crummey (50), currently based in Crumlin, Dublin, will take up the rank on July 20th, on the retirement of Assistant Commissioner Thomas O'Leary.up by Assistant Commissioner Tony Hickey, who moves from Sligo.
Chief Supt Crummey is to fill the Sligo post.
Other appointments were also announced yesterday. Supt Patrick Cregg, formerly based in the Garda College, moves to Garda Headquarters in Dublin as a chief superintendent.
Insps Martin Callinan and Aiden Reid of the drugs squad in Harcourt Square, Dublin, are promoted to the rank of superintendent, as are Insp Martin Regan, based in Baltinglass, Co Wicklow, and Det Insp Thomas Gallagher, based in Coolock, Dublin.
After 31 years in the force, Chief Supt Crummey will become one of the 12 most senior members of the force on his appointment (there are one commissioner, two deputy commissioners and nine assistant commissioners). He will have responsibility for the Garda's Northern Region, which includes Co Sligo and the border counties other than Co Louth.
He has been involved in some of the largest investigations, including high-profile murder cases, in west Dublin in recent years. The son of a former Garda chief superintendent, he was born in Co Kerry and grew up in Dublin.