Our
best chance for a new beginning. Pat Armstrong Chairman of the Police Authority
for Northern Ireland
From IRISH NEWS November 29th, 2000
The board also has responsibility for developing a code of policing ethics
- the crucial principles on which all future policing must be based. These
major improvements mean that the authority is now of the view that the balance
of the Police Act is about right. The framework has been provided to enable
the new board to be a body of real accountability. As we in the authority
are preparing for the transition to the new board, it is essential that
all political parties and leaders in society act now to give the new board
their full backing. The creation of the board will be the first major milestone
in what we all are striving towards - a new beginning for policing in Northern
Ireland. This is our best chance ever of achieving that aim and we should
not let the opportunity pass us by. |
