2021 Media Releases
Published Date:
15.12.2021
A Police Ombudsman investigation has found no evidence to support a man’s claim that police attacked him and broke his ankle while he was regaining consciousness following a confrontation with door staff in ...
Published Date:
11.11.2021
A police officer has been disciplined for failing to take appropriate action after discovering suspected drugs while responding to a call to assist a suicidal woman in Belfast in January 2019.
Published Date:
09.11.2021
An investigation by the Police Ombudsman’s Office has cleared the driver of a police Land Rover of claims that he performed a “kamikaze” driving manoeuvre in Dundonald last year.
Published Date:
28.10.2021
A police officer abused his position by producing his police warrant card while confronting a driver about a traffic collision, an investigation by the Police Ombudsman’s Office has found.
Published Date:
26.10.2021
An investigation by the Police Ombudsman’s Office has found no evidence to support a complaint that police failed to return £250 to a man who had been arrested on suspicion of drugs offences.
Published Date:
30.09.2021
The Police Ombudsman has found no evidence that police were in possession of information which, if acted upon, could have prevented an IRA mortar attack in Newry 1992 in which a police officer was killed and...
PDF: Public statement
Published Date:
22.07.2021
The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Marie Anderson, has identified significant investigative failures by the RUC in relation to the murder of 17-year-old Damien Walsh in 1993, as well as evidence of ‘collusive behavio...
PDF: Public statement - The Murder of Damien Walsh
Published Date:
16.06.2021
The Police Ombudsman’s Office has appealed for witnesses to an incident involving police and a member of the public on Belfast’s Andersonstown Road on Wednesday 2 June 2021.
Published Date:
03.06.2021
The Police Ombudsman’s Office has appealed for witnesses to an incident involving a police officer and a member of the public at Waterloo Street, Derry/Londonderry, on 15 May 2021.