The Policing Board’s Human Rights Advisor monitors the PSNI’s compliance with the Human Rights Act 1998. This monitoring work is informed by three key principles. First, the monitoring is dynamic and based on a positive dialogue between the Policing Board and the PSNI. Secondly, the performance of the whole Service is examined: from Headquarters to Area Command level. Thirdly, the 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 Advisor has monitored the PSNI’s human rights compliance in 15 key areas such as training, policy, operations, use of force, covert policing, 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.
