Our Role

We don't underestimate the complexity of this challenge, nor the emotional stress for relatives attached to revisiting these tragic events.

We envisage a re-examination process for all deaths attributable the security situation with case reviews leading to re-investigation in appropriate circumstances where there are evidential opportunities.

Families sit at the very heart of our investigations. The primary objective is to work with them to achieve a measure of ‘closure’ in these difficult cases.

We do not underestimate the complexity of this challenge. Nor do we underestimate the potential emotional stress for relatives attached to re-visiting these tragic events.

It is for this reason that our Family Liaison section has a central role in our work.

The second objective is to enable a sense of confidence among those directly affected and the wider public that all these cases will be comprehensively examined to current professional standards, to the extent that as an organization we can be satisfied that all evidential possibilities have been explored.