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The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) says a plan to address declining numbers of officers and the recruitment of hundreds of new officers, will require £200m in additional funding over ...
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) will launch an officer recruitment campaign on Wednesday, aiming to lift numbers from an all-time low. It has said its "recovery plan" will require £ ...
The PSNI's chief operating officer Pamela McCreedy said: "With respect to our Student Officer recruitment campaign, we are aware of a number of inappropriate and unacceptable posts circulating on ...
Jon Boutcher QPM is a senior British police officer. He was appointed as Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on 7 November 2023. [2] [3] He served as interim Chief Constable from 12 October 2023 whilst the recruitment process was ongoing to appoint someone permanently.
The first clause of the act covered the name of the police force. The Patten Report originally suggested naming the force the "Northern Ireland Police Service". The government of the United Kingdom adapted the proposal and put forward for the force to be named "Police Service of Northern Ireland" instead as they disliked the acronym of NIPS. [2]
The PSNI was initially legally obliged to operate an affirmative action policy of recruiting 50% of its trainee officers from a Catholic background and 50% from a non-Catholic background, as recommended by the Patten Report, in order to address the under-representation of Catholics that had existed for many decades in policing; in 2001 the RUC ...
He also stated: "We recognise that the board has a major responsibility in carrying out our duty in holding the PSNI to account in the interests of justice for the Omagh families." [4] On 22 November 2009, a 400lb car bomb was driven to the Policing Board building in Belfast. It partially exploded but no one was hurt.
Four PSNI officers have gone on trial accused of affray after a fight in a kebab shop. The officers, three men and one woman, who were off duty at the time, deny the charges. Dean McCallum, 37 ...