New recruits arrive at Trim Garda Station

Trim Garda Station has a whole new lease of life this week with the arrival of two new probationer Gardaí.

Straight out of Garda College in Templemore and rearing to go are Emma Keane and Stephen Crehan, both from Galway.
They will be swelling the ranks in the Trim station and are among a crop of new faces that have arrived over the past month.
Other new faces in Trim include Inspector Alan Brady and four new sergeants, Sgt Paul McManus, Sgt JP Coggins, Sgt Martina Gallagher and Sgt Kieran Tansey.
Garda Keane and Garda Crehan are the first trainees to be allocated to Trim in over a decade. Trim Garda Station has been recently designated as a training station in Meath along with Navan and Ashbourne.
“Garda Mick McGowan was the last probationer here in Trim, ten years ago,” said Supt Yvonne Murphy.
She welcomed the new recruits and said it was great news that Trim is now a training station.
“It is fantastic for morale and it is fantastic for the community to have new gardai, eager to work and eager to learn.
“It is good to see new blood. Everyone wants to learn and everyone wants them to learn.”
She said it was a great boost to the station that so many new faces have all arrived over the past month.
“Hopefully Trim will see a lot more community policing over the next while. There will be huge inrovements in Trim.” 
Supt Murphy is also relatively new to Trim having arrived late last year.  
She has a strong interest in new and innovative ways of community policing and that will be very much reflected in her approach in Trim.
“Nothing can compare to a garda on the beat, walking the street,” she said.
“Young members coming in increase the feet on the street and it is a great for morale, it gives a good boost to the station.”