Nóirín O'Sullivan (born 3 November 1960) is an Irish Garda who has served as Director of Strategic Partnerships for Europe at the International Association of Chiefs of Police since October 2017.
[3] In late October 2017 she was appointed Director of Strategic Partnerships for Europe at the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
She worked her way through the ranks of the Garda Siochana and during her 36 years service, she held various managerial and leadership positions.
[13] As part of her time with the Gardaí O'Sullivan undertook lead on implementation of the most fundamental reform programme in their 95 year history.
In March 2017, it was announced that 14,700 people were wrongly convicted of motoring offences after they weren't given the opportunity to pay a Fixed Charge Notice.
[15] On 10 September 2017, O'Sullivan announced her decision to retire effective from midnight, stating that the "unending cycle of requests, questions, instructions and public hearings", which she described as "all part of a new – and necessary – system of public accountability", nevertheless left her with too little time to carry out such tasks as reforming the Garda Síochána "and meeting the obvious policing and security challenges".
[19] In May 2023, O'Sullivan was appointed by the Ceann Comhairle to chair a taskforce on safe participation in political life.