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The Northern Ireland Policing Board is the Police Authority for Northern Ireland, charged with supervising the activities of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. It is composed of members of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and independent members, all of whom are chosen by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Police authority - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... The Police Service of Northern Ireland (Irish: Seirbhís Póilíneachta Thuaisceart na hÉireann) is the police service that covers Northern Ireland. ... The logo of the Northern Ireland Assembly, a six flowered linen or flax plant. ... The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is the British cabinet minister who has responsibility for the government of Northern Ireland. ...


The board was re-vamped and, for the first time in it's history, Sinn Fein MLA's were appointed to the Policing Board due to them supporting the PSNI in their Ard Fheis on 28 January 2007. This is unique, as Sinn Fein are associated with the PIRA and during the troubles, the IRA killed over 250 Police Officers who were serving with the old RUC. An Ard Fheis is an annual convention, usually of a political party. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) is a paramilitary group which aimed, through the use of violence, to achieve three goals: (i) British withdrawal from Ireland, (ii) the political unification of Ireland through the merger of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland , and (iii) the creation of an all... For other uses, see The Troubles (disambiguation). ...


Members

DUP

Sinn Fein Tom R. Buchanan (born October 30, 1955) was a player on the reality show Survivor. ... Jeffrey Mark Donaldson (born 7 December 1962) is a Northern Irish politician and Member of Parliament for Lagan Valley. ... David Simpson (born 1959) is a Democratic Unionist politician in the United Kingdom. ... Peter Lindsay Weir (born August 21, 1944) is an Australian film director. ...

UUP Martina Anderson MLA is a nationalist politician in Northern Ireland. ... Alex Maskey (born January 8, 1952) is an Irish politician who was the first member of Sinn Féin to serve as Belfasts Lord Mayor. ... Daithí McKay is a MLA for North Antrim and a Councillor in Ballymoney Borough Council. ...

SDLP Alderman Leslie Cree, MBE, MLA (b. ... Cllr Basil McCrea MLA is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. ...

Independent Cllr Dolores Kelly (born 3 September 1959) is a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly for Upper Bann. ...

Gearóid Ó hEára (English: Gerard OHara) (born 1953 in Creggan, Derry, Northern Ireland) is a Sinn Féin politician and a former Mayor of Derry, Educated by the Irish Christian Brothers, Ó hEára joined the Provisional Irish Republican Army following the sectarian conflagrations of the late 1960s and... Trevor Ringland (born November 13, 1959 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a solicitor and former Rugby Union winger. ... David Rose was a British-born American songwriter, composer, arranger, and orchestra leader known as one of the most popular and distinctive mainstream instrumental pop composers of the 20th century. ...

See also

List of Government departments and agencies in Northern Ireland This article is a list of Northern Ireland government Departments and their Agencies and other related organisations (listed underneath each Department) (at September 2006): // Government departments and agencies These Departments are subject to the Northern Ireland Assembly, when it is in...

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Northern Ireland Policing Board - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (278 words)
The Northern Ireland Policing Board is the Police Authority for Northern Ireland, charged with supervising the activities of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
It is composed of members of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and independent members, all of whom are chosen by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Although it is entitled to nominate members, the board is being boycotted by the largest nationalist party in Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin, as all of the recommendations of the Patten Commission have not yet been implemented.
Police Service of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (477 words)
The political party Sinn Féin, which represents about a quarter of Northern Ireland voters, has so far refused to endorse the PSNI until Patten's recommendations are, as it perceives, "implemented in full".
However, the other major nationalist party in the north, the SDLP, has joined the Policing Board and says that it is satisfied that the Patten recommendations are being implemented.
Cramphorn was formerly Flanagan's deputy, and with Flanagan's resignation Cramphorn acted as Chief Constable while the Policing Board sought a permanent replacement.
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