Section 35 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 empowers the Northern Ireland Policing Board, subject to the approval of the Minister of Justice, to appoint the Chief Constable.
This section also empowers the Policing Board, subject to the approval of the Minister of Justice and after consultation with the Chief Constable, to appoint other senior police officers (Deputy Chief Constable and Assistant Chief Constable rank) and senior civilian posts (Director of Human Resources and Director of Finance).
At present there are no senior officer vacancies within the PSNI.
The Policing Board has made the following PSNI appointments:
Chief Constable
- CC Hugh Orde - 2002
- CC Matt Baggott - 2009
- CC George Hamilton - 2014
Deputy Chief Constable
- DCC Paul Leighton - 2003
- DCC Judith Gillespie – 2009
- DCC Drew Harris - 2014
Assistant Chief Constable
- ACC Duncan McCausland – 2002
- ACC Roy Toner – 2002
- ACC Peter Sheridan – 2003
- ACC Judith Gillespie – 2004
- ACC Drew Harris – 2006
- ACC Alistair Finlay – 2006
- ACC David Jones - 2008
- ACC Will Kerr - 2009
- ACC George Hamilton - 2011
- ACC Mark Hamilton - 2013
- ACC Stephen Martin - 2014
- ACC Alan Todd - 2016