Michael Joseph Staines (1 May 1885 – 26 October 1955) was an Irish republican, politician and police commissioner. He was born in Newport, County Mayo, his mother Margaret's home village, and where his father Edward was serving as a Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) officer. He was on the Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital Board. He was the first commissioner of the Garda Síochána, of which he said, The Garda Síochána will succeed not by force of arms or numbers, but on their moral authority as servants of the people. — Michael Staines