Police Service of Northern Ireland
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Two men arrested over cocaine and cannabis discovery in flood-hit town EUR21m fund available to train Dell staff No winner of EUR2.7m Lotto jackpot Bid to speed up devolution of powers Calls for Dun Laoghaire parking cuts Woman dies after being struck by van Retired solicitor leaves EUR3.3m in will...Sinn Fein. The transfer of the powers was promised in the St Andrews agreement of 2006 which led to republican acceptance of the PSNI and paved the way for the DUP and Sinn Fein to enter government together. Downing Street and the... In this article: Dun Laoghaire, DUP, Cocaine, Dell, Cannabis, Sinn Fein, Martin McGuinness, Peter Robinson, Downing Street, and Brian Cowen |
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BBC News | 4 days ago
Two in court over PSNI murder bid
...independent republican candidate who unsuccessfully stood in the Northern Ireland Assembly election. Two were arrested by the PSNI in Fermanagh and one by Irish police in County Leitrim. Meanwhile, the police are appealing for...
In this article: PSNI
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AP Online | 4 days ago
NIreland: 2 charged with attack on police
...spike in dissident activity aims to undermine Northern Ireland's power-sharing government of British Protestants and Irish Catholics. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said late Tuesday that the two unnamed men have been charged with...
In this article: Northern Ireland, Belfast, Car bomb, and Republic of Ireland
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Sunday Mirror | 4 days ago
Pair charged with PSNI murder bid
Within an hour of the alleged murder bid, a 400lb car bomb was abandoned at the Belfast headquarters of the Policing Board - the Police Service of Northern Ireland's oversight body. The explosives failed to denote. Both incidents have...
In this article: Car bomb, Belfast, and Northern Ireland
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Two charged with PSNI murder bid
...also been charged with using a firearm with intent to resist arrest. Three other men arrested after the incident were released without charge on Monday. Two were arrested by the PSNI in Fermanagh and one by Irish police in County Leitrim.
In this article: PSNI
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Independent.co.uk - UK | 5 days ago
Arrest halts UDA faction's handover of weapons
...UDA group in north Belfast which has remained loyal to him. But yesterday angry supporters called off the meeting and said that the PSNI action had jeopardised plans by it to totally disarm by February of next year. The group said...
In this article: Andre Shoukri, UDA, John de Chastelain, Parole, Belfast, Northern Ireland Prison Service, and Prison Service
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CNN | 6 days ago
Police targeted in N. Ireland bomb attack
Car carrying 400-pound bomb crashes through barriers at police HQ in Belfast Device only partially exploded, Police Service of Northern Ireland said Spokesman says device would have caused "widespread damage and destruction" LONDON,...
In this article: Northern Ireland, Belfast, U.S., CNN, London, England, United Kingdom, and Republic of Ireland
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PSNI stall on shoot-to-kill files
...in the 1980s. Coroner John Leckey, who set a November deadline for the material to be handed over, has received a letter from the PSNI asking for a delay until February. The request will be considered at a court hearing at the end of...
In this article: PSNI, John Stalker, West Yorkshire Police, Hugh Orde, and INLA
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The Police Service of Northern Ireland GC (Seirbhís Phóilíneachta Thuaisceart Éireann, Ulster Scots: Polis Core o Norlin Irelann ) is the police service that covers Northern Ireland. It is the successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary a controversial police force which , in turn, was the successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary.
The RUC was renamed and reformed on 4 November 2001 as a result of a Policing Review set up under the Belfast Agreement. This agreement required the creation of an Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, which became known as the Patten Commission after its chairman, Chris Patten. He originally proposed the name Northern Ireland Police Service; however the abbreviation NIPS was thought inappropriate for a variety of reasons. The final decision included in the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 was to rename the force to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (incorporating the Royal Ulster Constabulary), to be shortened to the Police Service of Northern Ireland for operational purposes.
All major political parties in Northern Ireland, Nationalist and Unionist support the PSNI. At first the political party Sinn Féin, which represents about a quarter of Northern Ireland voters, had refused to endorse the PSNI until Patten's recommendations are implemented in full. However, as part of the St Andrews Agreement Sinn Féin announced its full acceptance of the Police Service of Northern Ireland at a special Ard Fheis on the issue of policing on the 28 January 2007.
The other major nationalist party in the region, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), has joined the Northern Ireland Policing Board and says that it is satisfied that the Patten recommendations are being implemented. In the summer of 2005, the SDLP's Alex Attwood estimated that 80% of Patten's recommendations have been implemented.
- Name:
- Police Service of Northern Ireland
- Location Country:
- United Kingdom
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 2001
- Website:
- http://www.psni.police.uk
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