O’Loan, Nuala

Independent Investigation into Police Conduct in an Environment of Terrorism

The keynote address by Nuala O'Loan, Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, delivered at the 2002 NACOLE conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts provides a response to the argument that due to conditions in the United States after 9/11, policing does not require oversight and that jurisdictions cannot afford it given the higher costs of public safety.