Media Releases
Published Date:
06.02.2020
A police officer has been disciplined for failing to properly investigate an alleged homophobic attack at a bar in Co Fermanagh in December 2018.
Published Date:
04.02.2020
A Police Ombudsman investigation has found no evidence to support a woman’s allegation that she was dragged from her car and assaulted by police during an incident in Magherafelt in January last year.
Published Date:
30.01.2020
The Police Ombudsman has urged police officers to look out for signs that people being restrained are having difficulty breathing, after an investigation found that a man appeared to “pass out” while being t...
Published Date:
28.01.2020
A Police Ombudsman investigation has found no evidence that police treated a man they had arrested “like a lesser person” and deliberately inflicted pain on him.
Published Date:
30.10.2019
The Police Ombudsman, Marie Anderson, has informed a number of families who made complaints to her Office about events during ‘The Troubles’ that investigations may be delayed following the PSNI’s identific...
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Published Date:
01.07.2019
Most police officers who were subject of a complaint to the Police Ombudsman’s Office last year felt that its staff treated them fairly.
Published Date:
10.06.2019
The Police Ombudsman’s Office has appealed for witnesses to an incident involving two police officers and a member of the public at Belfast’s Mater Hospital on Tuesday 26 March this year.
Published Date:
03.05.2019
The Secretary of State has announced her intention to recommend the appointment of Mrs Marie Anderson as the new Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.
Published Date:
29.03.2019
The Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, underlined the importance of independence to the work and ethos of his office during a speech at the Imagine Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics last night (28 Ma...