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Press Releases 2007
| POLICE SHOULD HAVE BEGUN INVESTIGATION- POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 06 Dec 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has upheld a complaint that police were wrong when they refused to initiate an investigation into suspicions of fraud in relation to money raised during charity football matches for those affected by the Omagh Bomb.... | ||
| NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION IN BROTHERS' DOUBLE MURDER, BUT INVESTIGATION WAS BRIEF AND FLAWED: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 30 Oct 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has found no evidence of security force collusion in the UVF murder of two young Catholic brothers in Co.... | ||
| NO EVIDENCE GREYSTEEL COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED: NUALA O'LOAN | 16 Oct 2007 | |
| A Police Ombudsman investigation has established that police did not have any prior knowledge which could have helped them prevent the terrorist attack in Greysteel.... | ||
| REPORT ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DEATH OF MR NEIL MCCONVILLE ON 29 APRIL 2003 | 04 Oct 2007 | |
| The police operation which resulted in the first fatal shooting by the PSNI was poorly managed by senior officers, but the officer who fired the fatal shots was justified in using his firearm to protect the life of a colleague.... | ||
| POLICE FAILED ROSEMARY NELSON: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 19 Sep 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Nuala O'Loan, has said an abusive and inherently dangerous leaflet and a death threat made against the solicitor Rosemary Nelson were not handled properly by the police.... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN PRAISES PSNI OFFICER WHO REPORTED COLLEAGUE FOR | 14 Sep 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has praised a police officer who did the right thing by reporting a colleague who hit a man in the face while the man was restrained in handcuffs.... | ||
| POLICE PROPERLY INVESTIGATED ARMY SUICIDE CASE: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 25 Jul 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has concluded that police correctly handled the investigation into the death of an 18-year-old Royal Irish Regiment soldier whose suicide in 2001 was alleged to have followed bullying in the Army.... | ||
| GOVERNMENT SHOULD ENSURE FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 18 Jul 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Nuala O'Loan has called on the government to ensure her Office has the funds it needs to carry out her statutory duty of investigating murders from the past which have been referred to it by the PSNI.... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN PRAISES OFFICER FOR FIRING GUN. | 03 Jul 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has praised a police officer for his quick thinking in discharging his firearm during an incident reminiscent of one of the most gruesome images of 'the Troubles.... | ||
| NO EVIDENCE OF POLICE MISCONDUCT IN DERRY/LONDONDERRY "RAVE" INCIDENT | 22 May 2007 | |
| A Police Ombudsman investigation into an incident in which a 31-year-old man sustained serious head injuries when he fell as police cleared a crowd from an illegal rave, has found no evidence of police misconduct.... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN'S OFFICE CONTACTED FOLLOWING RIOTING IN LOS ANGELES | 11 May 2007 | |
| The Los Angeles Police Commission has contacted the Police Ombudsman's Office following rioting in the city last week at a May Day rally by immigrants and workers' rights groups, when police fired more that 250 foam bullets.... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN'S OFFICE HELPS FOUND INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF COMPLAINTS AGAINST POLICE. | 30 Apr 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has joined with other police oversight bodies across the globe to launch a new organisation to promote independent investigation of complaints against the police.... | ||
| POLICE COLLISION WAS 'A TRAGIC ACCIDENT' | 17 Apr 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has concluded that a police Land Rover which knocked down and killed a man in West Belfast while answering an emergency call had its siren on at the time of the collision, despite statements from local people to the contrary.... | ||
| NO NEW EVIDENCE KILLING WAS DELIBERATE BUT USE OF BATON GUN WAS UNJUSTIFIED: POLICE OMBUDSMAN. | 16 Apr 2007 | |
| A Police Ombudsman investigation into a fatal shooting of a boy on 15 April 1981 in Derry / Londonderry, has not uncovered any additional evidence that there was an intent to unlawfully kill, or to cause grievous bodily harm.... | ||
| POLICE RIGHT TO USE CS SPRAY DURING COLERAINE INCIDENTS: POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 22 Mar 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman has found that police officers were justified in using CS Spray during three incidents in Coleraine in October and November 2004.... | ||
| OFFICER JUSTIFIED IN SHOOTING MAN WHO LEFT BOMB IN CITY CENTRE - POLICE OMBUDSMAN | 21 Mar 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Nuala O'Loan, has said it was necessary for a police officer to shoot a man he believed was reaching for a weapon as he made his getaway after leaving a bomb in Belfast city centre.... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN APPEALS FOR INFORMATION AFTER SHOTS FIRED IN BELFAST | 14 Mar 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has appealed for information following an incident in which police discharged shots in North Belfast this evening (Wed 14 March 2007).... | ||
| POLICE OMBUDSMAN APPEALS FOR INFORMATION AFTER POLICE DISCHARGE SHOTS AT DUNDONALD | 28 Jan 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman's Office has appealed for information about an incident during which police fired shots in the early hours of this morning (Sunday 28 January 2007).... | ||
| OPERATION BALLAST: PUBLIC STATEMENT. | 22 Jan 2007 | |
| The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland has released the findings of her three-and-a-half-year investigation into a series of complaints about police conduct in relation to the murder of Raymond McCord Junior in November 1997.... | ||
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