Legacy investigations to recommence next week following COVID-19 suspension, confirms PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton

Investigations into troubles-related killings in the north over the past half century are to resume next week after being temporarily suspended due to COVID-19.
By Kevin Mullan
Published 23rd Apr 2020, 15:04 BST
Updated 23rd Apr 2020, 15:05 BST
PSNI Chief Constable Mark HamiltonPSNI Chief Constable Mark Hamilton
PSNI Chief Constable Mark Hamilton

The PSNI announced that work on legacy reviews and investigations will recommence from May Day.

Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said: “A decision was taken, by the PSNI’s Service Executive Team on March 24, to temporarily suspend all legacy investigations and to refocus this resource to support the PSNI’s response to Operation TALLA (the UK police response to Covid-19).

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"Legacy Investigation Branch (LIB) was one of a number of functions within PSNI that were redeployed in order to provide immediate resilience to PSNI’s critical functions.

“Following a meeting of the PSNI’s Service Executive Team on Wednesday, April 22 it was agreed that this temporary suspension would be lifted and that officers and staff within LIB would resume their normal duties with effect from May 1, 2020.

"Having implemented a range of social distancing measures we have been able to limit the numbers of COVID-19 related absences to levels which have allowed us to sustain service delivery across the organisation and in this case return officers who had been providing resilience to those functions to their core roles."