Rathmullan native Goretti Sheridan has been officially announced as Donegal’s new Garda Chief Superintendent.
The long-serving Garda is currently a Garda Superintendent serving out of Letterkenny Garda Station.
The county had been without a local Chief Superintendent since the departure of former Chief Superintendent Terry McGinn in December 2022.
Chief Superintendent Sheridan comes to the role with a wealth of experience having served at a number of Garda districts including Dublin, Sligo, Buncrana and Castlerea.
She joined An Garda Siochana in 1993 and was promoted to the rank of Inspector in 2013.
Superintendent Sheridan also holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) focused in Criminology from Dublin Institute of Technology.
She is the daughter of Claire and the late Patsy Sheridan.
The promotion was made under the new Garda Operating Model, which included restructuring at National, Regional and local levels to provide a greater focus on community policed based on local needs. The changes reduced the number of Garda Divisions reduce from 28 to 21.
There had been plans to amalgamate the Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim divisions with Sligo-based Chief Superintendent Aidan Glackin overseeing all three.
However, after much lobbying, a decision was made to leave Donegal as a ‘stand alone’ Garda division.
The new model will particularly enhance the investigation of crime through the delivery of a greater range of specialised services in local areas, such as the investigation of sexual crime, domestic violence, cyber-crime, and economic crime.
