{"id":519190,"date":"2026-06-26T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/519190\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:50:09","slug":"jacqui-durkin-appointed-as-police-ombudsman-for-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/519190\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacqui Durkin appointed as Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/teo-240626-jacqui-durkin.jpg\" alt=\"Jacqui Durkin appointed as Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland\" class=\"w-100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jacqui Durkin has been appointed as the new Police ombudsman for Northern Ireland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the appointment and thanked Ms Durkin for her service as chief inspector of the Criminal Justice Inspection for Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJacqui brings a wealth of experience to the role of Police Ombudsman and I wish her every success during her tenure,\u201d Ms Long said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inspection programme overseen by the Chief Inspector enables us to develop a more effective and efficient criminal justice system for the people of Northern Ireland and Jacqui will bring a track record of leadership and achievement to her new role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacqui Durkin has been appointed as the new Police ombudsman for Northern Ireland.\u00a0 Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-519190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}