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The Chief Constable of Northern Ireland is the third-highest paid police officer in the UK (after the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police). [21] The current chief constable is Jon Boutcher , who was appointed on an interim basis after the resignation of Simon Bryne in September 2023 and successful in being officially ...
in Northern Ireland, the same power of arrest as a constable from Northern Ireland would have under Article 26 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (necessity test). [93] A constable from Northern Ireland has: [90] in Scotland, the same power of arrest as a constable from Scotland
This is a description of law enforcement in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.Before the Republic (then called the Irish Free State) left the union in 1922, one police force — the Royal Irish Constabulary — policed almost the whole island (aside from Dublin, where the Dublin Metropolitan Police were the main force; Belfast, where the Belfast Borough Police were the main force ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in Northern Ireland. Police. Police Service of Northern Ireland; Ministry of Defence Police; Belfast Harbour Police; Belfast International Airport Constabulary; Bodies with police powers. National Crime Agency; Northern Ireland Security Guard Service; Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
The following list compares the size of police forces and police per head. In 2006, an analysis by the United Nations indicates an approximate median of 300 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. [1] Only nine countries disclosed values lower than 100 officers per 100,000 inhabitants. [1]
The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) [n 1] was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) [2] following the partition of Ireland.
Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland before the Troubles ended, low-level petty crime was not as common as in the rest of Ireland or the UK. [1]Since the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998, there has been more low-level crimes being committed, although statistics show that some places in Northern Ireland (outside of Belfast) have some of the lowest crime rates in Western Europe.
The Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland was established in 1998 as part of the Belfast Agreement, intended as a major step in the Northern Ireland peace process. Chaired by Conservative politician and the last Governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten (later the Lord Patten of Barnes), it was better known as the Patten Commission ...