Policing board chair says legal advice on options after resignation of Simon Byrne have been considered
Representatives of the policing board, the oversight body for the PSNI, answered questions on the leadership of the PSNI when the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee held a hearing at Stormont.
She said the board considered legal advice on a range of options including the appointment of an interim chief constable, either from within or outside the service, but this option was “simply not one that was open to us”. Ms Toner said the board was working at pace to expedite the recruitment of a permanent chief constable.
Vice-chair Edgar Jardine replied: “I think the credibility of the board would have been damaged more if we had strayed from the constraints within the legislation in which we had to work.” “Our legal advice is that it’s not possible to appoint someone into the office of chief constable, it’s a high office and you can’t just put someone in without going through the proper appointments process,” Ms Toner said.
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