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Assistant Commissioner, Roads Policing & Community Engagement

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Title: Assistant Commissioner Roads Policing & Community Engagement

Name: Catharina Gunne 

Native of: Meath

Appointed: September 2025

Joined: 1998

Career Highlights:

Assistant Commissioner Catharina Gunne has built a distinguished career across frontline policing, strategic transformation, and specialist crime investigation, with a particular emphasis on economic crime.

Her early service included frontline duties in DMR South Central, followed by a transfer to the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation, where she served at all ranks from Detective Garda to Detective Superintendent.  She led complex and high-profile fraud investigations. She later held a key role in the Strategic Transformation Office implementing project across the organisation.

Catharina has served as Superintendent of the J District (Howth, Clontarf, Raheny), Detective Superintendent in the Special Tactics & Operations Command (STOC), and the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB). She was subsequently appointed Chief Superintendent and Head of Internal Affairs, where she oversaw discipline and conduct matters across the organisation.

She has represented An Garda Síochána on national and international platforms, including the Garda Commissioner’s representative on the Oversight Group for Ireland’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security, chaired by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In 2023, she was appointed by the OECD as a country evaluator for Lithuania’s Bribery and Corruption Evaluation.

Assistant Commissioner Gunne has led specialist training programmes in financial crime, fraud investigations, and internal governance. She has also developed strong public-private partnerships with financial institutions and regulatory bodies, including the Banking & Payments Federation of Ireland. 

Qualifications:

Assistant Commissioner Gunne is currently completing the Strategic Commanders Course for senior police leaders. Her academic credentials include:

  • Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Crime Compliance – International Compliance Association
  • B.A. in Applied Policing (Policing & Human Rights Law in Ireland) – University of Limerick
  • Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) Postgraduate Diploma – University of Limerick
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Governance – University College Dublin
  • Advanced Diploma in Corporate, White-Collar & Regulatory Crime – King’s Inns
  • B.A. in Accounting & Finance – Dublin City University