Talks between Sinn Féin and the Police Service of Northern Ireland focussed on trying to build a better understanding of each other, Chief Constable Hugh Orde said today.

A former Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officer is set to take charge of an Assembly committee tasked with reporting on the transfer of policing and justice powers, it has emerged.

Serving and retired officers lost confidence in the North’s outgoing Police Ombudsman, rank-and-file members said today.

The new Police Ombudsman in the North is already attracting differing responses from nationalist and unionist politicians.

Sinn Féin representatives will today quiz the North's police commanders in public for the first time.

Sinn Féin has criticised what it regards as the repeated failure of the prosecution service to take action against police officers criticised in official reports.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said today that he will urge his party to join the North's Policing Board at a meeting on May 12, following the restoration of the Northern Executive.

Sinn Féin is due to hold its first-ever meeting with the North's Policing Board today following its decision earlier this year to support the PSNI.

A viable bomb was left outside the home of an independent member of a local policing body in the North, police said today.

Sinn Féin joining the Policing Board which holds the Police Service of Northern Ireland to account will be the last piece in the jigsaw of policing reform, the board chairman said today.

The Taoiseach has condemned last night's attack on the home of Denis Bradley, the Vice-Chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board.

The deputy chairman of Northern Ireland’s Policing Board stood defiant today after a petrol bomb attack on his home.

A petrol bomb attack on the home of the deputy chairman of Northern Ireland’s policing board has been condemned by Sinn Féin.

The police service of Northern Ireland is to publish it's first annual report later today.

A senior Metropolitan police officer investigating allegations of collusion between members of the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries is in the running for the top job in Northern Ireland’s new police service.