Policing of parade justifiable given threat of violence: Police Ombudsman

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 justifi...

Parades Commission ruling ambiguous: Police Ombudsman

The Police Ombudsman's Office has said the Parades Commission should issue detailed maps when giving determinations about the routes of marches. This is one of the recommendations arising from its investigat...

Sudden Death

 The Police Ombudsman's Office is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Coleraine this morning.Its understood the man died at around eleven o'clock at a house in "The He...

No evidence officer killed Alice McLoughlin

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...

Full public statement: No evidence officer killed Alice McLoughlin

Deceased Named

The Police Ombudsman's Office has today released the name of the man who died after being shot by police in Ballynahinch, Co. Down, yesterday (Sunday 16 April). He was 23-year-old Steven Craig Colwell of ...

Man shot dead: Police Ombudsman investigating

The Police Ombudsman's Office has begun an investigation after police shot a man dead in Ballynahinch this morning. It's understood the incident happened at around half past eleven on the Church Road in the ...

Police Ombudsman appeals for information about hours leading up to fatal crash

The Police Ombudsman's Office has appealed for information about the circumstances that led up to a fatal crash in Co. Derry/Londonderry on 16 March 2006.Two men died when a Honda Civic car collided with thr...

Police worked hard to secure its safety, yet train was attacked - Police Ombudsman

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 ou...

Police Ombudsman appeal after fatal crash

Police Ombudsman investigators have appealed for anyone who saw the car which crashed near Castledawson last week killing its two occupants to contact them.Two men died when the white Honda Civic crashed nea...

Police Ombudsman statement re. police investigation involving a number of staff

The Police Ombudsman's Office has this afternoon released the following statement regarding a police investigation into allegations against a number of its staff.   "The police have launched an invest...