Media Releases
Published Date:
19.03.2020
The Police Ombudsman’s Office has put in place ‘social distancing’ measures in line with current Government guidance on dealing with the Coronavirus outbreak.
Published Date:
03.03.2020
Police Ombudsman investigators have met with the families of Lauren Bullock, Morgan Barnard, both 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie, who died on 17 March 2019 during a crush outside the Greenvale Hotel, Cook...
Published Date:
20.02.2020
Two police officers have been disciplined over failings in the investigation of a head-on collision near Lisburn in January 2018.
Published Date:
18.02.2020
The Police Ombudsman has cleared a police officer of racially discriminating against a taxi driver who reported that he had been assaulted by a customer in south Belfast.
Published Date:
13.02.2020
A Police Ombudsman investigation has found that a police officer breached guidelines by failing to advise a solicitor that she was recording Body Worn Video (BWV) footage in his office.
Published Date:
11.02.2020
The Police Ombudsman has concluded that police were justified in using pepper spray, TASERs and impact rounds to prevent a woman harming herself with a knife in east Belfast.
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.