“The OPONI senior management is at present dysfunctional, there is a serious lack of trust between many senior staff”

snippet from CJI NI report into OPONI

The BBC report that the Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson is to quit his job before the end of his seven year contract. Mr Hutchinson was due to leave the position in just over three years time. “I acknowledge that personal attacks on me, criticisms, are becoming dysfunctional in their impact in the office and I have reflected on that and I have taken a decision,” he said. The details of this will be announced at a justice committee meeting on …

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