PSNI: Under-pressure Simon Byrne to face Policing Board

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PSNI: Under-pressure Simon Byrne to face Policing Board
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The board will hold an emergency meeting after a court ruled two officers were unlawfully disciplined.

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The judge said they were disciplined to allay a threat that Sinn Féin could withdraw its support for policing, but Sinn Féin insisted that there was no such threat. Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party are the largest nationalist and unionist parties respectively in Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive, which the DUP collapsed in February 2022 as part of its protest against Brexit trading agreements.A special session of the board can be called if seven members request it.

Fresh questions over Mr Byrne's leadership were raised on Tuesday after a judge ruled that two junior PSNI officers were unlawfully disciplined for an arrest made at a commemoration on Belfast's Ormeau Road in February 2021.The event marked a UFF attack at a bookmakers in which five people were killed and nine others were injured.

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