Just one new Garda recruit for county Longford out of 154 Garda College graduates
The north west region, which includes county Longford, received the lowest allocation
County Longford has received one additional garda from the newly attested batch of 154 recruits.
The new members of the force graduated on Friday, August 22 at the Garda College in Templemore in Co Tipperary.
The garda that has been sent to Longford is based in the county town.
The north-west region, which includes county Longford, has once again received the lowest number of new officers.
The Southern Region received the highest number, at 66 and 45 newly attested Gardaí were sent to the Dublin Region, while the Eastern Region has benefitted from a further 22 newly attested Gardaí.
Last June, Longford did not receive any recruits from the graduating class, meaning that the county has benefitted from just one recruit from two classes.
An additional garda was also sent to Longford town last March, however, the numbers of new garda recruits has fallen compared to last year when two new recruits were deployed to Longford on two separate occasions in April and July 2024.
Elsewhere in the Mayo-Roscommon-Longford Garda Division, Mayo received three newly attested officers, however, not a single Garda was deployed to county Roscommon.