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Press Releases 2006
| NO AVAILABLE EVIDENCE THAT TERRROIST ATTACK ON SOLDIER COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED | 12 Dec 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has said it has found no evidence that the murder of Stephen Restorick, the last serving soldier to be killed by the IRA in Northern Ireland, could have been prevented.... | ||
| PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS 'EQUALLY SUPPORTIVE' OF POLICE OMBUDSMAN'S OFFICE: SURVEY FINDINGS | 01 Dec 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office enjoys almost equal levels of support from both Protestants and Catholics, with over 80% from both communities believing it is helping to improve policing, according to the findings of an independent survey.... | ||
| POLICE OFFICER WAS RIGHT TO USE CS SPRAY DURING ODYSSEY INCIDENT | 13 Nov 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has said a police officer was right to have used CS Spray on a man during a Christmas Eve fight outside the Odyssey Arena in Belfast.... | ||
| OFFICER JUSTIFIED IN USING CS SPRAY DURING NORTH BELFAST INCIDENT | 13 Nov 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has said a police officer was justified when that officer used her CS Spray on a man during an incident in north Belfast.... | ||
| OFFICER RIGHT TO USE CS SPRAY DURING STRABANE INCIDENT | 13 Nov 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has concluded that a police officer was right to discharge CS Spray during an incident in which he had a beer bottle smashed over his head.... | ||
| USE OF CS SPRAY DURING BALLYMENA DISTURBANCE WAS 'APPROPRIATE': POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 13 Nov 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has concluded that an officer was justified in using CS Spray to help calm a confrontation between rival groups outside a bar in Ballymena.... | ||
| OFFICER JUSTIFIED IN USING CS SPRAY DURING MAGHERA INCIDENT : POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 13 Nov 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has said a police officer was right to discharge CS Spray twice at a group of people during fighting in the Main Street, Maghera, in which a man was being badly beaten.... | ||
| OFFICER WAS RIGHT TO USE CS SPRAY DURING COLERAINE INCIDENT: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 08 Nov 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has said a police officer was right to discharge CS Spray into the face of a man he had just arrested on the Ballycastle Road, near Coleraine in 2004.... | ||
| OFFICER WAS RIGHT TO USE CS SPRAY DURING BELFAST INCIDENT: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 08 Nov 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has said a police officer was right to have used CS Spray during unrest in the Westland Road and Knutsford Drive areas of Belfast.... | ||
| MORE THAN HALF OF POLICE HOUSE SEARCHES RESULT IN A 'POSITIVE FIND.' | 07 Nov 2006 | |
| More than half the house searches carried out by the police recently have resulted in a 'positive find', according to research which has been published by the Police Ombudsman's Office.... | ||
| NO EVIDENCE OF POLICE MISCONDUCT IN THE TORNEY INVESTIGATION | 06 Sep 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Nuala O'Loan, met representatives of the Torney family today.... | ||
| STAFF CLEARED FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION | 17 Aug 2006 | |
| A number of Police Ombudsman staff who had been the subject of a Police investigation have been cleared.... | ||
| ARMY THOUGHT MCCONVILLE DISAPPEARANCE A HOAX: POLICE OMBUDSMAN. | 13 Aug 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman investigation into a complaint from Jean McConville's family has concluded that police did not conduct an investigation into her disappearance for more than 20 years.... | ||
| TWO MEN ARRESTED: POLICE OMBUDSMAN STATEMENT. | 09 Aug 2006 | |
| Two men have been arrested this morning as part of a major Police Ombudsman investigation.... | ||
| SIGNIFICANT FAILINGS IN ATTEMPTED MURDER INVESTIGATION, AND LACK OF POLICE RESOURCES ON NIGHT OF ATTACK: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 08 Aug 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has found that investigative errors and a lack of police officers in Larne on the evening of 23 October 2002 led to significant failings in the police investigation of an attempted murder case.... | ||
| USE OF CS SPRAY DURING STRABANE INCIDENT JUSTIFIED AND APPROPRIATE : POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 03 Aug 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has released details of an incident during which CS Spray was used to subdue two males at Railway Street in Strabane on 5 September 2004.... | ||
| OFFICER RIGHT TO USE CS SPRAY DURING OUL LAMMAS FAIR INCIDENT: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 03 Aug 2006 | |
| A Police Ombudsman investigation has found that a police officer was right to use CS Spray on a man during events at a recent Oul Lammas Fair in Ballycastle.... | ||
| OFFICER WAS RIGHT TO USE CS SPRAY AGAINST AGGRESSIVE MAN IN BALLYMENA | 03 Aug 2006 | |
| An investigation by the Police Ombudsman has concluded that a police officer was right to use CS Spray against a man who was threatening to attack him in Ballymena on 13 November 2004.... | ||
| OFFICER JUSTIFIED IN USING CS SPRAY AGAINST MAN ARMED WITH KNIFE: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 03 Aug 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has concluded that a police officer was justified in using CS Spray when he discharged it at a male armed with a knife, after being called to a disturbance in Bessbrook in October 2004.... | ||
| POLICE USE OF CS SPRAY JUSTIFIED DURING KILLYCLOGHER INCIDENT: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 03 Aug 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsmans Office has released details of its investigation into an incident just before Christmas 2004 when police officers and a member of the public ended up in a fight in a dimly-lit graveyard in County Tyrone, with both sides kicking and punching at each other.... | ||
| OFFICER WAS JUSTIFIED IN USING CS SPRAY DURING ANTRIM INCIDENT, BUT PSNI URGED TO ENSURE TRAINING RECORDS ARE COMPLETE | 03 Aug 2006 | |
| Thursday, 30 December 2004The Police Ombudsman has found that a police officer was justified when he used CS Spray during an incident in Antrim, but has also recommended that the PSNI should ensure that it keeps accurate records of all training undertaken by officers.... | ||
| PORTADOWN DISCHARGE OF CS SPRAY WAS JUSTIFIED AND APPROPRIATE : POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 03 Aug 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has concluded that an officer acted properly when he used CS Spray during a potentially life-threatening situation in Portadown.... | ||
| OFFICERS SPLIT SECOND DECISION TO USE CS SPRAY DURING CRUMLIN INCIDENT WAS JUSTIFIED: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 03 Aug 2006 | |
| Friday, 5 November 2004The Police Ombudsman has concluded that a police officer was right to use CS Spray to subdue a male armed with knives during an incident at Crumlin on 5 November 2004.... | ||
| ENNISKILLEN CS SPRAY USE WAS REASONABLE AND PROPORTIONATE : POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 03 Aug 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has found that a police officer was justified in using CS Spray during an incident near Enniskillen in December 2004.... | ||
| OFFICER JUSTIFIED IN USING CS SPRAY : POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 03 Aug 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsmans Office has said a police officer was right to discharge CS Spray twice at a group of people during fighting in the Main Street, Maghera, in which a man was being badly beaten.... | ||
| OFFICER RIGHT TO USE CS SPRAY AGAINST STRUGGLING MAN: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 02 Aug 2006 | |
| An investigation by the Police Ombudsmans Office has concluded that a police officer was justified in using CS incapicitant spray against a man who was being disorderly at Coleraine train station on 25 September 2004.... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN TO DEAL WITH IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS COMPLAINTS. | 19 Jul 2006 | |
| The Government has asked the Police Ombudsmans Office to deal with serious complaints made against the Immigration Service and Her Majestys Revenue and Customs.... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN STRONGLY CRITICAL OF POLICE PURSUIT POLICY FOLLOWING FATAL ACCIDENT | 17 Jul 2006 | |
| A Police Ombudsman investigation into the death of a 19-year-old man who drowned in a stream following a collision with a police car, has strongly criticised police procedures and training for vehicle pursuits, but has found no evidence of misconduct by any of the officers involved.... | ||
| FATAL COLLISION AT GLENGORMLEY, POLICE OMBUDSMAN INVESTIGATING | 11 Jul 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office is investigating the circumstances of a fatal road collision which happened near Glengormley this morning.... | ||
| JEAN MCCONVILLE STATEMENT: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 07 Jul 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Nuala O'Loan, has said her investigators have found no evidence to indicate that west Belfast woman Jean McConville, who was killed by terrorists in 1972, had ever passed information to the security service.... | ||
| POLICING OF PARADE JUSTIFIABLE GIVEN THREAT OF VIOLENCE: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 06 Jul 2006 | |
| A Police Ombudsman investigation has established that the police handling of an Orange Order parade and Nationalist protests on the evening of July 12 2004 at Ardoyne in North Belfast was 'in general justifiable' and was overshadowed by 'intelligence' reports that elements on both sides were planning violence.... | ||
| PARADES COMMISSION RULING AMBIGIOUS: POLICE OMBUDSMAN. | 21 Jun 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has said the Parades Commission should issue detailed maps when giving determinations about the routes of marches.... | ||
| SUDDEN DEATH | 17 May 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Coleraine this morning.... | ||
| NO EVIDENCE OFFICER KILLED GIRL | 09 May 2006 | |
| A two-year investigation by the Police Ombudsman's Office into the death of a young Portadown woman, who died from a bullet from an off-duty police officer's gun, has concluded that there is no evidence that her death was anything other than a tragic accident.... | ||
| DECEASED NAMED | 17 Apr 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has today released the name of the man who died after being shot by police in Ballynahinch, Co.... | ||
| MAN SHOT DEAD: POLICE OMBUDSMAN INVESTIGATING | 16 Apr 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has begun an investigation after police shot a man dead in Ballynahinch this morning.... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN APPEALS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT HOURS LEADING UP TO FATAL CRASH | 03 Apr 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has appealed for information about the circumstances that led up to a fatal crash in Co.... | ||
| POLICE WORKED HARD TO SECURE ITS SAFETY YET TRAIN WAS ATTACKED- POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 22 Mar 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has upheld complaints from members of The Royal Black Preceptory and its Lurgan District No 2 that police failed to protect its members who were on a train which was attacked outside the town and then failed to help them afterwards.... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN STATEMENT RE. POLICE INVESTIGATION INVOLVING A NUMBER OF STAFF | 21 Mar 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has this afternoon released the following statement regarding a police investigation into allegations against a number of its staff.... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN APPEAL AFTER FATAL CRASH | 21 Mar 2006 | |
| Police Ombudsman investigators have appealed for anyone who saw the car which crashed near Castledawson last week killing its two occupants to contact them.... | ||
| GAY PEOPLE AND ETHNIC MINORITIES | 22 Feb 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office and the Northern Ireland Policing Board have today (22 February) launched two new reports on the attitudes to policing of people within the local black and minority ethnic and lesbian, gay and bisexual communities.... | ||
| MOST PEOPLE MAKING COMPLAINTS AREN'T POLITICAL - POLICE OMBUDSMAN RESEARCH | 14 Feb 2006 | |
| Most people in Northern Ireland who make complaints about police do not appear to support any political party, research by the Police Ombudsman's Office has indicated.... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN APPEAL FOLLOWING FATAL CRASH | 23 Jan 2006 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has appealed for witnesses in relation to a fatal crash in Derry/Londonderry at the weekend.... | ||
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