Investigations into the firing of police Tasers in the North has found that the weapon was deployed proportionately on each occasion.

More than 300 former police officers in the North have been given specialist roles within the PSNI, the Policing Board heard.

The actions of a policeman who shot dead the driver of a stolen car were critically flawed, a watchdog has found.

Dentist Colin Howell and his ex-lover Hazel Stewart got away with murder for almost 20 years because of a deeply flawed police investigation which also failed the families of their two victims, a report claimed today.

Relatives of some victims of the Omagh bomb are seeking a meeting with a former member of the Police Ombudsman’s office who was called in to investigate after the acquittal of the only man charged with the atrocity.

The North’s crisis-hit Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson will leave the job next year, he told a Stormont committee today.

The North's crisis-hit Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson is today expected to announce plans to leave the job when he faces politicians at Stormont.

The North's police ombudsman’s office was rocked today by a damning report that questioned the watchdog’s independence and which could force the resignation of its figurehead.

There were calls for the resignation of the North's police ombudsman Al Hutchinson after a leaked report raised fresh questions over his office's independence.

PSNI officers were left red-faced after they ruined a wedding in the false belief that it was a sham.

RELATIVES of six men murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in the North 17 years ago yesterday rejected the findings of a fresh report into the massacre and accused police of colluding with the killers.

Relatives of six men murdered by loyalists in the North in 1994 have insisted there was security force collusion in the killings.

There were a catalogue of police failings following a loyalist pub shooting in the North which killed six men, an independent investigation has found.

THERE was a catalogue of police failings following a loyalist pub shooting in the North which killed six men, an independent investigation has found.

A report on the police investigation into an Ulster Volunteer Force pub shooting which killed six men will be published on Friday.

A major report on the North's policing watchdog has raised questions over its independence and the British government's role in appointing its figurehead.

An off-duty PSNI officer who shot a man dead at an east Belfast petrol station in February will not be prosecuted, the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has said.

SO the seemingly endless speculation and conditioning on a visit to the Republic of Ireland by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has come to pass.

Colin Howell's US-born wife may be questioned again by detectives who re-opened the investigation into the deaths of his first wife and PC Trevor Buchanan, it was revealed today

Families of those killed in the McGurk’s pub bomb have welcomed findings of investigative bias by police, but said the force had more questions to answer.

Police investigative bias led to the IRA being wrongly blamed for a Belfast pub bombing in which 15 people died, the Police Ombudsman said today.

Nine people were injured today following a police car pursuit in west Belfast.

A police officer in the North has been suspended following a probe into how a dissident republican killed himself while in custody, it emerged today.

Former police officers have urged the North's Chief Constable Matt Baggott to launch a new inquiry into the Claudy bomb atrocity after challenging some of the Ombudsman’s findings into the 1972 outrage which left nine people dead.

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

THE North’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has been challenged to meet the victims of the Claudy bombing after revealing he met the chief suspect in the attack.

WHILE I agree very much with your editorial (August 25) on Al Hutchinson’s report on the collusion to protect Fr Jim Chesney from proper investigation by the RUC, I was surprised at the mildness of tone.

THE head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Seán Brady, yesterday strenuously denied the Church colluded in covering up the suspected involvement of a priest in one of the worst terrorist outrages in the Troubles.

A POLICE investigation into a Catholic priest suspected of being involved in the 1972 Claudy bombing was stopped after senior officers conspired with the government and Church to protect him, a shock report has revealed.

The Claudy bombings of July 31, 1972, in which nine innocent people – five Catholics and four Protestants – were killed in Co Derry are now history, but they have an immediacy with the publication yesterday of the report of the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman, Al Hutchinson.

Outraged relatives of a notorious IRA bombing which claimed nine lives demanded a fresh investigation today after it emerged the police, British government and Catholic Church conspired to protect the prime suspect, a Catholic priest.

Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson said today that the British Government was “profoundly sorry” that the victims of the 1972 Claudy bombing and their families had been denied justice.

A police investigation into a Catholic priest suspected over the 1972 Claudy bomb outrage was stopped after senior officers conspired with the British government and Catholic Church to protect him, a shock new report revealed today.

Police failed to locate the body of a drunk man who died in a fire which swept through a disused school in north Belfast, an inquest heard today.

Closing the Tullamore bypass is one option being considered by Offaly Council Council after the stretch failed skid safety tests.

A report into one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles was put on hold today after bereaved relatives hit out at its findings.

An independent investigation into one of the North’s worst terrorist atrocities which left 15 people dead in a pub bombing found no evidence police colluded with the loyalist killers, it was revealed today.

The North's Police Ombudsman appealed for witnesses today after officers fired baton rounds during riots in west Belfast.

A teenager who drowned in a river in the North after fleeing police was “disaffected” with his life, a community worker claimed today.

Those who targeted a police station in the North tried to lure officers into a secondary attack, the area commander said today.

Police who searched a house for a missing man but failed to find his decomposing body have been disciplined, it was confirmed today.

The home of the North's former Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan was targeted in a sectarian attack today.

Proposals to control the amount of information available to families bereaved during the North's conflict are playing God with the interests of justice, a human rights group has claimed.

A 72-year-old man was arrested today by officers investigating the murder of a policeman in the North more than 30 years ago.