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Press Releases 2004

POLICE OMBUDSMAN APPEALS FOR INFORMATION OVER ARRESTS 03 Dec 2004
The Police Ombudsman's Office has appealed for information about an incident in the Loopland Crescent area of Belfast on Thursday 25 November 2004....
 
APPEAL FOR INFORMATION ABOUT CS SPRAY DISCHARGE 29 Nov 2004
The Police Ombudsman's Office has appealed for information about an incident at Church Street in Enniskillen during the early hours of Saturday 6 November 2004....
 
POLICE OMBUDSMAN APPEALS FOR WITNESSES TO USE OF CS SPRAY IN PORTADOWN 01 Nov 2004
The Police Ombudsman’s Office has appealed for information about an incident in Portadown during which a police officer discharged CS Spray....
 
POLICE OMBUDSMAN APPEALS FOR INFORMATION FOLLOWING CS SPRAY INCIDENT 27 Oct 2004
Investigators from the Police Ombudsman's Office have issued an appeal for information about an incident in Derry/Londonderry during which a police officer discharged CS Spray....
 
POLICE OMBUDSMAN STATEMENT ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE MURDER OF MR FRANK HUGHES 12 Oct 2004
Following a complaint about the police investigation into the murder of taxi driver Mr Frank Hughes, murdered by Loyalists near Dungannon in 1990, the Police Ombudsman has reviewed police files relating to the case....
 
SEIZURE OF JOURNALISTIC MATERIAL UNLAWFUL: POLICE OMBUDSMAN 03 Oct 2004
The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Nuala O'Loan, has completed an investigation into 20 complaints from 'The Sunday Times' newspaper, two journalists and a former RUC officer about a PSNI operation that led to questions being asked of Prime Minister Tony Blair in the House of Commons....
 
'NO IMPROPER PRESSURE ON SCIENTIST BUT POOR POLICE INVESTIGATION' 04 Aug 2004
An investigation by the Police Ombudsman's Office following the collapse of a terrorist trial, amid fears that police tried to influence a forensic expert, has found no evidence that police had put improper pressure on the forensic scientist....
 
STORMONT SEARCH : POLICE OMBUDSMAN STATEMENT 01 Aug 2004
Police Ombudsman investigations into complaints about the PSNI search of the Sinn Féin offices at Parliament Buildings in Stormont on the morning of October 4 2002 have concluded....
 
KILREA FIREARMS DISCHARGE: POLICE OMBUDSMAN APPEALS FOR INFORMATION 15 Jul 2004
The Police Ombudsman's Office has appealed for information about the discharge of a number of shots by police at The Diamond in Kilrea in the early hours of Monday July 12, 2004....
 
POLICE DID ALL THEY COULD TO PROTECT WILLIAM STOBIE 04 Jul 2004
An investigation by the Police Ombudsman's Office into aspects of police conduct prior to the murder of Belfast man William Stobie, has found that police officers did all they reasonably could to protect his life....
 
19-YEAR-OLD’S DEATH: POLICE OMBUDSMAN ISSUES FRESH APPEAL 25 Jun 2004
The Police Ombudsman’s Office has issued a fresh appeal for information about the death of 19-year-old Raymond Robinson at Whiteabbey in April this year....
 
PUBLIC DEMANDING A SERVICE: POLICE OMBUDSMAN 07 May 2004
Allegations that police officers have failed in their duty is the largest growing category of complaint and represents almost one third of all complaints made about police last year, the Office of the Police Ombudsman has said....
 
19 YEAR OLD’S DEATH: POLICE OMBUDSMAN INVESTIGATING 24 Apr 2004
The Police Ombudsman's Office is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 19-year-old man near Whiteabbey in County Antrim early this morning....
 
'RIOTERS TRIED TO KILL POLICE OFFICERS' 29 Mar 2004
The Police Ombudsman's Office has said that it believes some of the people involved in rioting in north Belfast after a recent Scottish Cup Final game may have been trying to kill the police officers on duty....
 
POLICE OMBUDSMAN MAKES FRESH APPEAL ABOUT DEATH OF PORTADOWN TEENAGER 23 Mar 2004
The Police Ombudsman's Office has issued a fresh appeal for information relating to the death in July 1991 of Portadown teenager Alice McLoughlin....
 
NEW POLICE OMBUDSMAN/POLICE FEDERATION FORUM ESTABLISHED 18 Mar 2004
The Police Ombudsman's Office, the Police Federation, (the body which represents rank and file police officers) and the Superintendents Association of Northern Ireland have agreed to set up a joint Working Committee following results from the first ever survey of officers' attitudes to police complaints....
 
A CHANGE OF CULTURE WITHIN PSNI: POLICE OMBUDSMAN 16 Mar 2004
The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Nuala O'Loan, has told a Security Commission meeting in Washington that there has been a drop in the more serious types of complaints made against police officers in Northern Ireland and that she senses a change in culture within the PSNI....
 
QUESTIONS OVER FORENSIC SCIENCE EVIDENCE: POLICE OMBUDSMAN 01 Mar 2004
Following a decision in the Crown Court today, the Police Ombudsman will be writing to the Forensic Science Agency expressing concern about the role of the Forensic Scientist in the case....
 
PSNI OFFICERS WERE CORRECT: POLICE OMBUDSMAN. 25 Feb 2004
A Police Ombudsman report into events during riots in the Belfast's Short Strand area in August 2002 has said that the use of baton rounds by PSNI officers contributed to the safety of the police officers and of residents living in the area....
 
POLICE OMBUDSMAN APPEALS FOR INFORMATION ON ANNIVERSARY OF POLICE OFFICER'S MURDER 24 Feb 2004
The Police Ombudsman's Office has issued an appeal for information about the circumstances surrounding the murder of Sergeant Joseph Campbell, who was killed in County Antrim exactly 27 years ago tomorrow (Wednesday)....
 
NORTHERN IRELAND TO LEAD THE WAY IN POLICE COMPLAINTS INFORMATION. 15 Jan 2004
For the first time ever in Northern Ireland, detailed and localised information about police complaints will be made readily available to the police and the public through a new initiative by the Police Ombudsman's Office....
 
APPEAL FOR WITNESSES TO BANGOR INCIDENT 06 Jan 2004
The Police Ombudsman's Office has appealed for witnesses to an alleged altercation between two youths and police officers outside the Bangor Health Centre on the Newtownards Road last month....
 
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