Ex-GMP senior officer resigns as chief constable of Police Service of Northern Ireland
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland - former Greater Manchester Police deputy chief constable Simon Byrne - has resigned with immediate effect, the Northern Ireland Policing Board has confirmed.
The news follows a string of controversies and was announced at a press conference on Monday following an emergency meeting of the Policing Board.
Mr Byrne served in GMP from 2009 before joining the Metropolitan Police. In 2014, he became chief constable of Cheshire Police and was confirmed as chief constable of PSNI in 2019. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. It comes after a row erupted last week when a High Court judge ruled two junior officers were unlawfully disciplined for an arrest made at a Troubles commemoration event in 2021.
The judge said they had been disciplined to allay a threat that Sinn Fein could withdraw its support for policing. Sinn Fein has insisted there was no such threat.
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