The Policing Board’s Human Rights Advisors monitor the PSNI’s compliance with the Human Rights Act 1998. Their monitoring work is informed by three key principles. First, their monitoring is dynamic and based on a positive dialogue between the Policing Board and the PSNI. Secondly, they examine the performance of the whole Service: from Headquarters to DCU level. Thirdly, their work is focused on the present and future human rights compliance of the PSNI – they do not examine past practices.
To date, the Human Rights Advisors have monitored the PSNI’s human rights compliance in 14 key areas. The Policing Board’s Human Rights Annual Report 2005 outlined their monitoring work in areas such as training, policy, operations, use of force and covert policing. The Human Rights Annual Report 2006 built on this work and examined two additional areas: policing with the community and privacy and data protection.
Copies of all the Policing Board’s Human Rights Annual Reports are available on our publications page.
In keeping with the Policing Board’s and PSNI’s positive dialogue on human rights, the PSNI publishes its response to the Policing Board’s human rights annual reports. The PSNI's Human Rights Programme of Action outlines the measures it will take to implement the Human Rights Advisors’ recommendations.