Media Releases
Published Date:
20.05.2015
From this morning (May 20) the Police Ombudsman’s Office will be the body which will investigate all complaints about the conduct of National Crime Agency Officers in Northern Ireland.
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...