Media Releases
Published Date:
26.09.2023
The Police Ombudsman, Mrs Marie Anderson, has commended three probationary police officers for raising concern about the “highly inappropriate” way a colleague had spoken to a vulnerable man.
Published Date:
05.09.2023
Did you witness police stopping vehicles on the M2 south bound just before the Larne turnoff on 1 February this year at approximately 10am?
Published Date:
30.08.2023
The Police Ombudsman has found that there were ‘significant failings’ in the PSNI investigation into the murder of Gerard Lawlor in 2002, but no evidence that police could have prevented his murder nor of co...
PDF: Full public statement
Published Date:
31.07.2023
Our quarterly statistical bulletin has been published and shows complaints about police have risen by 13%.
Published Date:
31.07.2023
Were you in the area of the Cotton Road, Bangor, on 16 July at around 11pm? We’re investigating a road traffic incident involving a police vehicle and a silver Lexus which left the road.
Published Date:
29.06.2023
A PSNI officer has been dismissed for “gross misconduct” after a bicycle worth about £500 was found at his house after being lost by its vulnerable owner.
Published Date:
27.06.2023
Police custody staff have been commended for ensuring the wellbeing of a man who became critically ill after taking drugs he had smuggled into a police cell.
Published Date:
26.04.2023
The Police Ombudsman has concluded that the family of Patrick Kelly, abducted and murdered in 1974, was ‘failed by police’ as the result of a ‘wholly inadequate investigation’
PDF: Full public statement
Published Date:
07.03.2023
The Police Ombudsman has commenced an investigation into the PSNI policies and practice and the obligations imposed on police officers when interacting with vulnerable people.
Published Date:
23.02.2023
The Police Ombudsman has condemned the attempted murder of an off-duty police officer.