The allegations regarding collusion have prompted several inquiries, the most recent of which was published by Police Ombudsman Nuala O ' Loan.

In a report released on the 22 January 2007, the Police Ombudsman Nuala O ' Loan stated Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) informers committed serious crimes, including murder, with the full knowledge of their handlers.

Recently it has emerged from the Police Ombudsman that senior North Belfast UVF member and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) Special Branch informant Mark Haddock has been involved in drug dealing.

Both Nuala O ' Loan, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, and Al Hutchinson, the Oversight Commissioner of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, expressed reservations.

In Northern Ireland the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland has a similar role to that of the IPCC and PCCS.

* Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland

The current Police Ombudsman is former Oversight Commissioner Al Hutchinson who took over from Nuala O ' Loan in November 2007.

Similarly, staff of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland have certain powers under the Police and Criminal Evidence ( Application to the Police Ombudsman ) Order ( Northern Ireland ) 2009

The force are subject to the oversight of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.

The Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland ( PONI ) deals with complaints in Northern Ireland.

Section 146 specifies the functions of the Constitutional Offices Commission and empowers it to appoint the Supervisor of Elections, the Ombudsman, the Auditor-General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Secretary-General to Parliament, and the Commissioner of Police.

The Supervisor of Elections, the Ombudsman, the Auditor General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Secretary-General to Parliament, and the Commissioner of Police are appointed for 5-year terms, and are eligible for reappointment.

* creation of a Police Ombudsman and a Complaints Tribunal ;

He was re-elected again in the 2000 election, and continued as Minister of Defence, focusing on sweeping changes to the National Defence Act which implemented changes to the military justice system, including the set up of several oversight entities including a Military Ombudsman and a Military Police Complaints Commission.

* Peter Boyce-Commissioner for the Health and Community Services Complaints Commission Northern Territory ( 1998 – 2005 ); Northern Territory Ombudsman for the Office of Ombudsman ( 1995 – 2005 ); Police Complaints Authority South Australia ( 1992 – 1995 )

As of June 2010 no such designations had yet been made, but the Ministry of Justice has issued a consultation paper proposing to use s. 5 to extend the list of public authorities to include: academy schools, the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Financial Ombudsman Service, and UCAS

The Police Ombudsman concurs with this assessment but is of the opinion that the barriers are necessary for security reasons.

Giffen filed a petition for permission to emancipate four slaves ( all more than fifty years old ) with the St. Martin's Parish Police Jury.

In The Double Clue Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until " the Great War " ( WWI ) forced him to leave for England.

Police officers and court officials have a general power to use force for the purpose of performing an arrest or generally carrying out their official duties.

Police Officers can arrest someone without a warrant for an Assault if it is in the public's interest to do so notwithstanding S. 495 ( 2 )( d ) of the Code.

; Assault on a constable in the execution of his duty: Section 89 ( 1 ) of the Police Act 1996 provides that it is an offence for a person to assault either:

It is a separate offence to assault on a constable in the execution of his duty, under section 41 of the Police ( Scotland ) Act 1967 which provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

In 1936, the New York City Police Department unsuccessfully attempted to enter the tunnel, in order to look for the body of a hoodlum supposedly buried there.

* 1993 – A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

As of 2002, the city of Seattle had paid over $ 200, 000 in settlements of lawsuits filed against the Seattle Police Department for assault and wrongful arrest, with a class action lawsuit still pending.

The movie's title is from the nickname for the 41st Police Precinct in the South Bronx which was nicknamed " Fort Apache ".

Police departments make use of police buses for a variety of reasons, such as prisoner transport, officer transport, temporary detention facilities and as command and control vehicles.

Massachusetts State Police searched the offices of Aggregate Industries, the largest concrete supplier for the underground portions of the project, in June 2005.

* The Police hunting for the Batman and viewing him as Public Enemy # 1.

Bokken are currently issued to the Los Angeles Police Mounted Unit for use as batons.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

In the three decades following 1969, the Army was heavily deployed in Northern Ireland, to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( later the Police Service of Northern Ireland ) in their conflict with republican paramilitary groups, called Operation Banner.

This includes the British Army and the Police Service of Northern Ireland ( PSNI ).

Targets of the CIRA have included the British military, the Northern Ireland police service ( Royal Ulster Constabulary, Police Service of Northern Ireland ) and Ulster loyalist paramilitaries.

The CIRA continued to be active in both planning and undertaking attacks on the Police Service of Northern Ireland ( PSNI ).

In Northern Ireland the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Queen's University of Belfast use the harp as part of their identity.

A Police Service of Northern Ireland / Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Northern Ireland.

* October 5 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland, marking the beginning of The Troubles.

** The 1998 Good Friday Agreement required that the Police Service of Northern Ireland recruit equal numbers of Catholics and Protestants in order to eliminate the service's perceived bias towards Protestants.

It became the Police Service of Northern Ireland ( PSNI ) in 2001.

The RUC was renamed and reformed, as is provided for by the final version of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 2000.

It recommended a wholesale reorganisation of policing, with the Royal Ulster Constabulary being renamed the Police Service of Northern Ireland ( PSNI ), and a greater drive to recruit Catholic recruits and should adopt a new crest and cap badge.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland ( PSNI ) was introduced in November 2001.

* Police Service of Northern Ireland

Category: Police forces of Northern Ireland

On 3 May 2007, following recent negotiations between the Progressive Unionist Party ( PUP ) and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and with Police Service of Northern Ireland ( PSNI ) Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde, the UVF made a statement that they would transform to a " non-military, civilianised " organisation.

In compiling this detailed work, Dillon was given unlimited access to the case files of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( now the Police Service of Northern Ireland ), which eventually caught the gang.

In the October 2006 St Andrews Agreement, Paisley and the DUP agreed to new elections, and support for a new executive including Sinn Féin subject to Sinn Féin acceptance of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

It was the natural choice of location for the Mid-Ulster Sports Arena ( established in 2003 ) and the planned multi-million pound investment in a state of the art Public Service Training College which will accommodate the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue and the Northern Ireland Prison Service ( which is to be built at Loughry commencing in late 2012 ).