2015 Media Releases
Published Date:
13.05.2015
A police officer has been formally disciplined for failing to investigate an allegation of criminal damage, and later falsely claiming to have taken steps to progress the case.
Published Date:
06.05.2015
The Police Ombudsman has published his findings into ten incidents during which Tasers were fired by police officers between July 2012 and June last year.
Published Date:
21.04.2015
A police officer fired an accidental shot after his gun struck the driver’s side window of a car believed to contain armed paramilitaries, an investigation by the Police Ombudsman has concluded.
Published Date:
16.04.2015
The Police Ombudsman’s Office has upheld a complaint from a member of the public who was forced to do an emergency stop to avoid a police vehicle which had gone through red traffic lights in Belfast city cen...
Published Date:
14.04.2015
Police made all reasonable efforts to locate a missing man and to investigate whether he had been mugged, an investigation by the Police Ombudsman’s Office has concluded.
Published Date:
13.04.2015
The Police Ombudsman has told a meeting of police Superintendents that he is aware the current cuts in public funding will have a knock on effect on the problems police have to deal with.
Published Date:
03.04.2015
A police officer has been disciplined after a Police Ombudsman investigation concluded that he had grabbed a youth by his coat, shook him and used abusive language.
Published Date:
31.03.2015
The Police Ombudsman has concluded that a police officer was justified in punching a man who had subjected a “defenceless” woman to a beating with what appeared to be a metal bar, during an incident in Portr...
Published Date:
27.03.2015
A police officer alleged to have grabbed a teenage girl by her hair and cardigan and tripped her up while wrenching a music speaker from her grasp, has been cautioned for assault following a Police Ombudsman...
Published Date:
24.03.2015
Police played no part in a bank’s decision to close the accounts of one of its customers, an investigation by the Police Ombudsman’s Office has concluded.