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Justice in NI: Did the recent drop in PSNI officer numbers occur entirely during Executive collapse?
17 October 2025
On 6 October on the social media site X (formerly Twitter), the Alliance Party posted the following: Figure 1 – source: Alliance Party social media

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Crime in NI: Have reoffending rates risen to nearly 75%?
6 August 2025
In a 3 July post on social media, the Ulster Unionist Party quote MLA Doug Beattie saying: “Re-offending rates in Northern Ireland have gone from

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A British Army veteran who served in NI during the Troubles is 54x more likely to be prosecuted?
21 July 2021
This claim is not accurate. Prosecutions to date suggest that ex-British Army personnel have been the subject of cases five times more than Republican and

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Do the DOJ and NIO joint fund an £8 million a year programme to engage directly with paramilitary organisations?
9 June 2021
The cross-department Executive Programme for Tackling Paramilitary Activity and Organised Crime receives funds from the Northern Ireland Executive, and is not jointly funded by the

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Is there a high level of support for restorative justice?
16 August 2016
According to surveys collected by NISRA and by the Public Prosecution Service, a majority of respondents support either restorative justice or diversionary options generally. In

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Do half of freed criminals reoffend within a year?
28 July 2016
The claim is accurate. However, while the article does break down re-offending rates among criminals released from prison, the majority of offenders receive sentences that