Statement by TUV vice chair Causeway councillor Allister Kyle:
“The Policing Board missed an obvious opportunity to assert its independence by taking exclusive ownership of the review into the catastrophic data breaches in the PSNI. Instead, it is jointly seeking the review with those it claims oversight over, rather than demonstrably showing independence in thought and deed.
“Thus, in accordance with such review processes, the PSNI is likely to get advance sight of the report and have the opportunity to make representations thereon, before publication.
“Such is not a confidence-building approach, but then this is a Board seemingly desperate to retain a failed Chief Constable in office.”