UUP Calls for Urgent Meeting with Chief Constable
UUP Calls for Urgent Meeting with Chief Constable
Ulster Unionist Party Leader Doug Beattie MC MLA and UUP Policing Board representative Mike Nesbitt MLA have today written to the Chief Constable of the PSNI calling for an urgent meeting in response to Mr Justice Scoffield’s High Court ruling to quash the decision made to suspend a police officer and to re-position another officer following disorderly behaviour at a memorial gathering on the Ormeau Road in February 2021.
Mr Nesbitt said:
“It is unacceptable that a political party can influence policing and the duty status of any police officer, as has been made clear in Mr Justice Scoffield’s ruling.
“Doug and I shall be making clear our view and seeking to establish how this happened, on what other occasions it may have happened and how the Chief Constable intends to reassure the public it can never happen again.”