The PSNI decided to put cheating recruits through the course again, instead of getting new, clean applicants, writes Terry Prone.

Garda supervisors are to debate the provision of body cameras and bullet-resistant vests among a range of proposed protection measures.

Heavy weaponry was used in a suspected dissident republican gun attack on police officers in west Belfast, a senior officer has revealed.

Police in the North have made their first arrest under the new offence of paying for sex.

The largest Garda staff association has called for a debate on the introduction of body cameras.

Policing Authority chief Josephine Feehily has pledged to exercise the independence of the agency to the “fullest extent” permitted under its legislation.

Seven people have escaped injury in a gun attack on a house in Co Tyrone.

Three cases linked to alleged rape of a Belfast woman and subsequent IRA cover-up are to be reviewed by a top human rights lawyer, the Public Prosecution Service has said.

The procedure being used by the Government to appoint the head of the new independent policing authority is at odds with the systems used for equivalent bodies in Scotland and in the North.

The needs of victims must be paramount when devising a way of dealing with Northern Ireland’s troubled past, the region’s new chief constable has said.

Northern Ireland’s chief constable will retire at the end of June, two months earlier than planned, he has announced.

The former chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board has been cleared of corruption allegations, it was announced today.

The Northern Ireland Policing Board is to be briefed on a crunch meeting between the PSNI chief constable and the head of a special unit set up to investigate unsolved Troubles-related murders.

Rival politicians have been urged to step back from tit-for-tat rows after a Sinn Fein minister was injured during a contentious parade in Northern Ireland.

Talks on the policing of Belfast public order events with a history of large-scale unrest have produced a commitment to non-violence, it was revealed.

Two men are being questioned in connection with a car crash, which killed a “bubbly and beautiful” policewoman in her patrol car.

Two men have been arrested in Derry by officers investigating a car crash that killed a police woman.

A policewoman has died in a car crash involving a suspected stolen vehicle in the North.

A viable letter bomb has been posted to a senior police officer in the North, it was confirmed today.

The North’s political leaders have held a marathon special meeting to discuss the loyalist Union flag protests.

Loyalists were urged tonight to cancel more planned street demonstrations over a Belfast City Hall decision to restrict the flying of the Union flag.

Police in Northern Ireland are facing questions tonight after confirmation they stored human body parts from people who died under suspicious circumstances without alerting families.

Up to 40 men have been forced out of a city by a republican vigilante group who shot dead a dad-of-two, it has been claimed.

The Real IRA has been blamed for attacks on the homes of two police personnel in Co Derry.

Bombers who lured police in the North into a booby trap by claiming a woman was being attacked have been branded “the lowest of the low”.

A massive 500lb bomb has been discovered in Newry packed in a wheelie bin in a van stolen from Co Kildare.

The PSNI have confirmed that the van bomb on the A1 route near Newry was a “substantial” device.

A five-year-old girl was among crowds of spectators gathered just yards from the car bomb which killed Pc Ronan Kerr before it went off, a police photograph revealed today.

The chief executive of the Northern Ireland Policing Board has resigned.

Dissident republicans in the North may have secured a cache of military grenades, it was feared today.

Dissident republicans who bombed a street in Derry early today were accused by the North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness of attempting to drag the city back to its violent past.

A priest suspected of involvement in the Claudy bombing met a former deputy chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, it was revealed today.

A police station guard in the North had a miraculous escape today after a car bomb partially exploded as he drove to work through a busy residential area.

The chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board is delaying his return to office until a police investigation into his involvement in a Belfast land deal is completed.

Dissident republicans were blamed for a car bomb attack at a court in the North last night.

A police officer was seriously injured when a bomb exploded under his car in the North today.

Detectives tonight warned innocent people would have been killed if a 400lb bomb had exploded in Belfast last weekend.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today unveiled a plan of nearly £1bn (€1.1bn) to devolve policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly, promising further aid if paramilitary violence erupts.

Police have foiled a dissident republican murder bid against Northern Assembly member Ian Paisley Jnr, he said today.

Members of the Stormont committee examining the devolution of policing powers from Westminster today demanded sight of the financial deal that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is offering to support the move.

Police chiefs in the North today poured cold water on Sinn Féin claims they were happy with the British Prime Minister’s financial package for achieving the devolution of responsibility for policing and justice to the Stormont Assembly.

The North’s new chief constable pledged today to work with all the people of the region to defeat dissident republican terrorists opposed to the peace process.

Police chiefs in the North were criticised today after confirming that one of their officers has been sent to Tripoli to help train Libyan police.

The Northern Ireland Policing Board is to challenge the British government over a proposed £17m (€19.45m) cut to the police service budget at a crunch meeting with the North’s security minister, it was announced today.