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Ulster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken join calls for PSNI chief constable to resign "He no longer has our support." UUP leader Steve Aiken at Stormont (Image: Steven McAuley/McAuley Multimedia) Want the biggest politics stories sent to you every week? Simply sign up here and we'll do the restInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notic...
Latest News Feb 25, 2021 Posted in: General, Justice, Security The Ulster Unionist Party’s Policing Board representative, Mike Nesbitt MLA, has called for urgent action to resolve a crisis which is developing with regard to Policing numbers, which are already almost 500 below what the Patten Report recommended and which could fall by a further 300 due to budget pressures. Mike Nesbitt said: “Police numbers have long been a source of great concern with successive Chief Constables having to police Northern Ireland without sufficient resources. “In re...
BBC News By Julian O'Neill Published image copyrightPacemaker Twenty years ago policing was given a new beginning, one meant to be free of politics, but recent events have shown it has not escaped that space. Confidence in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been dented by its response to the pandemic. Mistakes have been made, but policing a divided society has magnified them. The realisation that a failure of policing is also a failure of politics was a factor in parties backing Simon Byrne remaining as chief constable. Mr Byrne was hired in mid-2019 on a modernisation agenda a...