Historical Reports

Information not provided due to interpretation of the law: Police Ombudsman

An investigation by the Police Ombudsman has confirmed that RUC Special Branch did not provide some information to detectives investigating the Omagh bombing, due to their interpretation of the law at that t...

Full public statement: Information not provided due to interpretation of the law

Murder of officer "preventable"

Senior police officers within the RUC command structure were aware of a specific threat to one of their officers but failed to warn him about it and did not pass this information to the detectives who inves...

Full public statement: Murder of officer "preventable"

‘No evidence of police involvement in the attempted murder of Gerry Adams.’

The Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, has found no evidence of police involvement in the UFF gun attack on Gerry Adams and four other men in Belfast city centre on 14 March 1984.

Full Public Statement: Police not involved in Adams murder bid

Police should have warned about bomb

The police had information there was an IRA booby trap bomb in a property in the Creggan Estate in Derry/Londonderry but did nothing to warn those living there of the possible danger.

Public Statement: The bombing of Kildrum Gardens (67pp)

Video: Police should have warned about bomb at Kildrum Gardens

Investigative bias undermined police inquiry: Police Ombudsman

A report by the Police Ombudsman's Office has found that while there is no evidence that the RUC assisted those responsible for the UVF bombing of McGurk's Bar in Belfast in 1971, the police investigation ha...

Full Public Statement: Investigative bias undermined police inquiry

Police Ombudsman's Claudy report

The Police Ombudsman has released the findings of his investigation into how the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) dealt with their suspicions that a Catholic priest was allegedly involved in the bombing of Cl...

Full Public Statement: Claudy Report

Investigation of police officer's murder not thorough: Police Ombudsman

The Police Ombudsman's Office has told the son of an off-duty policeman killed in Belfast in 1988 that the investigation into his father's murder was not thorough and that not all information available to po...

No evidence of collusion in brothers' double murder, but investigation was brief and flawed: Police Ombudsman

The Police Ombudsman has found no evidence of security force collusion in the UVF murder of two young Catholic brothers in Co. Armagh in 1993, but has found that the police investigation of the murders, desp...

Full public statement: No evidence of collusion in brothers' double murder, but investigation was brief and flawed

No evidence Greysteel could have been prevented: Nuala O'Loan

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.

No new evidence killing was deliberate but use of baton gun was unjustified

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 gri...