The police watchdog will announce tomorrow what action it plans to take over allegations made in a damning report on the Hillsborough disaster.

Calls to routinely arm police following the killing of two women officers were rejected by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who warned against any knee-jerk response to the tragedy.

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.

FOUR applicants are set to fight it out to be London’s new police chief and take on responsibility for running Britain’s biggest police force as it battles with the aftermath of serious rioting and a high-profile investigation which has put some of its own staff under the spotlight.

BRITISH police chiefs yesterday hit back at Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to enlist a US crime expert after last week’s riots, as the conservative leader vowed “zero tolerance” against street violence.

Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May hit back at senior police chiefs over political criticism of their initial riot response, insisting it was her job to tell forces “what the public want them to do”.

ENGLISH police flooded the streets last night to ensure weekend drinking does not reignite the rioting that swept across London and other cities this week, shocking Britons and sullying the country’s image a year before it hosts the Olympics.

David Cameron was today forced to deny a rift with police over the handling of the devastating riots that swept England.

David Cameron insisted today that police and politicians had worked together to tackle the ugly riots that swept across England.

The death toll from the violent disorder that swept across England rose today after a man attacked by rioters as he attempted to stamp out a fire in west London died in hospital.

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron said, after four nights of violence, a fightback was under way yesterday.

A legal bid to effectively block the use of tasers by police in the North has failed.

Friends of a British soldier killed in Afghanistan spoke today of their anger at plans by a controversial Islamic group to march through the British town which honours fallen troops.

The party earmarked to take on the North's new Justice Ministry will not accept the post until the Stormont government agrees on a strategy to tackle segregation in the region, a senior member signalled today.

President Mary McAleese today praised the transformation of policing which had allowed the North to take a giant step towards a completely new era in community policing.

The new PSNI chief constable has indicated that he plans to respond to dissident republicans in the same way as any other criminal enterprise.

FEW could picture butch New Zealand rugby forward turned television pundit Brent Pope writing children’s books.

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.

A major security operation will be in place across the North today amid fears dissident republicans intend to mark the arrival of the new chief constable with violence.

A Belfast coroner today gave the North's Chief Constable seven weeks to hand over top secret reports on an alleged police shoot-to-kill policy during the Troubles.

Hugh Orde’s tenure as the North's Chief Constable ends today after seven years in charge of policing the region.

The new PSNI chief constable will take up his new post on September 22, it was confirmed this afternoon.

The outgoing PSNI chief constable says he does not think another serious republican paramilitary organisation will emerge as a significant threat in the North.

The North's outgoing police chief has today accused the Stormont administration of not doing enough to tackle segregation and division in the region.

PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde has defended the actions of officers who came across a gang of armed dissident republicans in south Armagh last Friday.

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin today welcomed the appointment of Matt Baggott as the new chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

The North's new chief constable has vowed to build on the work of the man he will succeed, Hugh Orde.

Leicestershire police chief Matt Baggott was tonight appointed as the new Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

The successor to the North's police chief Hugh Orde will be decided today as four high-ranking candidates face a rigorous interview process in Belfast.

The North's Policing Board will later today discuss the chief constable's proposals to sell off 26 police stations.

The front-runner to succeed Hugh Orde as Chief Constable of the PSNI has dropped out of the race.

Northern Ireland MP William McCrea has been warned of a death threat from the Real IRA, it was revealed today.

Two teenagers have been arrested today in connection with the violence which left terrified Romanians fleeing their homes in the North.

The DUP is understood to be demanding the retention of a full-time police reserve as a prerequisite for the devolution of criminal justice powers to Stormont.

A leading Romanian diplomat will today continue political meetings in the North after a spate of racist attacks.

Three loyalist paramilitary groups in the North have started to decommission their weapons after painstaking behind-the-scenes efforts to secure disarmament.

The North’s full-time police reserve is to be scrapped, Chief Constable Hugh Orde confirmed today.

A Romanian family whose home was the latest to be attacked by racist vandals in the North said today they are considering fleeing.

A journalist won the right today to withhold information about the Real IRA from police after a judge ruled that her life would be in danger if she was forced to hand it over.

Loyalist paramilitary groups in the North could be on the verge of decommissioning their weapons, it was claimed today.

PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde has rejected criticism of the force's response to an upsurge in xenophobic crimes against eastern Europeans in Belfast.

The British government must take further steps to boost unionists’ confidence ahead of the devolution of policing and justice powers to Stormont, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will tell the British Prime Minister tonight.

Hugh Orde used the publication of his last annual report as PSNI Chief Constable today to pay tribute to five officers who died in the line of duty this year.

A leading journalist in the North told a court today she was not prepared to put herself under sentence of death from the Real IRA by handing information to the police about the terrorists’ murder of two soldiers.