Downing Street Says » Northern Ireland

» Monday, January 22, 2007

Northern Ireland

Asked given that the RUC collusion with police in Northern Ireland was over a number of years until the current administration did any Ministers know, the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that there was no suggestion of Ministerial awareness. Asked why Ministers didn’t know of the collusion, the PMOS said that these were police operational matters not ministerial policy matters. Asked surely given the scale of the collusion some Minister at some point must have known, the PMOS said no, there was a very strict dividing line between operational matters and policy matters. The PMOS went on to remind the reporter that it was the current administration which set up the Ombudsman office, which has powers to investigate matters such as this, and set up the Policing Board to supervise the police and give local accountability.

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