Northern Ireland Assembly

Part of the debate – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 2:00 pm on 27 March 2012.

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Photo of David Ford David Ford Alliance 2:00, 27 March 2012

The accounting officer for the Office of the Police Ombudsman has always been the chief executive. Accounting officer responsibility changed from the acting chief executive to the interim chief executive following his appointment at the end of January this year. My Department’s role was to designate formally the incoming interim chief executive as accounting officer for the Office of the Police Ombudsman. My permanent secretary, as departmental accounting officer of the DOJ, wrote to the interim chief executive on 30 January 2012 to confirm the change of accounting officer role from the acting chief executive to the interim chief executive.