Students at Catholic schools in Northern Ireland should be encouraged to join the PSNI to help balance community representation in the force, the leader of the DUP has said.

There are reports that the main suspect in the the kidnapping and torture of Kevin Lunney has died.

Brexit provides dissident republicans with a “rallying cry” in their bid to perpetuate the severe threat they pose to security services in the North, a senior PSNI officer has said.

The 14 men were hooded, beaten and deprived of sleep, food and water while being held without trial in the North in 1971.

Northern Ireland’s police chief has said he is not threatening parents with the removal of their children.

Belfast City Council abandoned an attempt to demolish the bonfire in east Belfast when hired private contractors pulled out of the job after menacing threats were daubed on walls close to the site, purporting to identify them.

Deputy Howlin says he's desperately worried that the consequences for peace will be disastrous.

A police chief who is investigating the British Army's top-ranking IRA agent told the UK Prime Minister she "got it wrong" on legacy cases in Northern Ireland.

Police investigating the deaths of three teenagers in a crush outside a disco have done a good job, a senior officer has said.

Police in the North have concluded that 619 people were in the queue or car park on the night of the crush at a disco in Cookstown.

Police officers who responded to a hotel disco crush that killed three teenagers are to face investigation after it emerged they initially withdrew from the scene.

An investigation involving counter-terrorism officers has been launched after four mosques had their windows smashed with a sledgehammer overnight.

A man widely named as the Army's notorious IRA agent Stakeknife has been released on bail.

Evidence against the Birmingham Six was “enhanced”, a top-ranking police chief warned an MP years before their eventual release.

Northern police do not have the numbers to protect a hard border, a representative body has warned.

Police in Northern Ireland do not have the numbers to protect a hard Irish border, a representative body has warned.

Two UK police officers have been sacked after accidentally leaving a message on a mother's voicemail saying they hoped her vulnerable child would "get raped".

Two men arrested by detectives investigating the intimidation of four Catholic families in Belfast have been released.

Detectives investigating the intimidation of four Catholic families in Belfast have arrested two men.

The PSNI insisted chief constable George Hamilton was an invited guest and made no financial contribution at the North Antrim event hosted by MP Ian Paisley on Thursday night.

Police and justice chiefs in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have warned about the "very serious challenge" a post-Brexit border across the island could have on policing.

Detectives in the North are enquiring into Twitter activity by people purporting to be police officers.

Detectives in the North are enquiring into Twitter activity by people purporting to be police officers.

Sinn Féin's leader in the North will today meet PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton to discuss UDA activity.

An investigation has started into a potential security breach at the PSNI.

His colleague said: "I was trying to help him and he pointed his baton towards the attacker and said 'get him'. Even when injured, he was trying to fight."

A woman arrested over the Manchester Arena attack has been released without charge, leaving six people in UK custody as counter-terrorism police swooped on the suicide bomber's suspected "network".

Police are treating an explosion at Manchester Arena as a terrorist attack, believed to have been carried out by a suicide bomber.

Latest: Thousands of people have gathered in the centre of Manchester in a show of defiance, declaring they will not be "beaten" or "intimidated" in the wake of the terror attack.

Just a few hours after paying tribute to fallen police officers at the opening of a memorial in Belfast, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla visited Áras an Uachtaráin where they saw the Peace Bell which was designed in 2008 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

The body of murdered Pc Keith Palmer has begun a final journey through the city he once protected as thousands of police officers lined the route of his funeral cortege.

The Tánaiste and the Garda Commissioner yesterday condemned a reckless shooting in the North which left a PSNI officer with gunshot wounds to his arm.

A busy petrol station was sprayed with automatic gunfire during a drive-by shooting that injured a policeman, the North's police chief has said.

Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan has rejected claims from the North's police chief that weaker immigration checks in the Republic of Ireland are providing a route for international criminals to enter the UK.

A police officer who brought an unconscious motorist's car to a halt by ramming it into a motorway safety barrier has been commended by his Chief Constable in the UK.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Police in the North were justified in using Tasers to stop three individuals self-harming, a watchdog has found.

Wolf whistling and catcalls are to be classed as misogyny hate crimes by a division of police in the UK in an attempt to tackle sexist abuse.

Police Scotland has been urged to do more to tackle the "frightening" number of rest days owed to officers.

And so the disgrace continues.

British police have arrested five people on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism as part of an investigation which a security source said was linked to the attacks in Paris and Brussels.

Communities across the North must stand together to reject the dark deeds of the dark men who murdered a prison officer, mourners at his funeral were told.