2005 Media Releases
Published Date:
15.12.2005
The use of baton rounds was a justified and proportionate response to the serious violence directed at police officers during 24 riots in 2001 and 2002, according to a new Police Ombudsman report. The report...
Published Date:
06.12.2005
The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Nuala O'Loan, has welcomed the findings of an inspection of her Office by the Criminal Justice Inspectorate. The Criminal Justice Inspector, Mr. Kit Chivers, described his report as...
Published Date:
24.11.2005
An average of around 80 complaints are made against police officers in Armagh city and district each year, the Police Ombudsman has revealed.
Mrs Nuala O'Loan told members of the local D...
Published Date:
13.10.2005
The Police Ombudsman has revealed that the number of complaints about police officers in Down District has decreased over the past three years.Mrs Nuala O'Loan told members of Down District Policing Partners...
Published Date:
21.07.2005
Thursday, 21 July 2005DROP IN COMPLAINTS AGAINST POLICEMore than 2,800 people in Northern Ireland made complaints about police officers last year - that is a drop of 91 or 3% on the same period in the previo...
Published Date:
11.07.2005
The Police Ombudsman's Office has appealed for information regarding Sunday's fatal road traffic collision at Garryduff Road near Ballymoney.50-year-old Trevor John Barr, from the Drumnamallaght area of Ball...
Published Date:
28.06.2005
The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Nuala O'Loan, has told members of Dungannon and South Tyrone District Policing Partnership that there has been a reduction in the number of "more serious" complaints being...
Published Date:
20.06.2005
The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Nuala O'Loan, met representatives of the Loyal Orange Order Ballymacarret District Number 6 this evening (June 20, 2005) to discuss issues relating to the policing of parades. Mrs ...
Published Date:
16.06.2005
Police Ombudsman staff investigating circumstances surrounding the death of a 29-year-old man who died after he was hit by a Police Land Rover in west Belfast say they are anxious to trace the occupants of a...
Published Date:
13.06.2005
Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death, on 17 March 2003 of a man who was crushed when gates at Strabane Police Station closed on him has found no evidence to suggest any police officer ...