Members Notice

Members wishing to attend please contact Alex Attwood’s Office on 028 9080 7808

Dear Colleague,

This September is the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Patten Report on Policing.  The SDLP is organizing a series of anniversary events during 2009 to reflect on policing developments over the last decade and to consider policing challenges over the next.

The first Patten Anniversary Event which will take place on Saturday 28 March 2009 at St. Mary’s University, Falls Road, Belfast and will look at “Policing and Oversight at times of threat“.  The content of the first event has been revised given the recent terrible murders.  The Programme is attached.

I am writing to invite you to attend the Conference.  I hope you will consider its content is timely and relevant.

Yours sincerely,

ALEX ATTWOOD,

SDLP ASSEMBLY MEMBER, WEST BELFAST.

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AGENDA

10^TH ANNIVERSARY PATTEN REPORT ON POLICING

“POLICING AND ITS OVERSIGHT AT TIMES OF THREAT”

Saturday 28 March 2009

St Mary’s University College, Falls Road, Belfast.

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9.45am REGISTRATION

10.00am CONFERENCE OPENING

Alban Maginness MLA - “Patten, Policing and Responding to Threat”

10.05am “THE OMAGH BOMBING, THE PANORAMA PROGRAMME

AND THE NEEDS OF VICTIMS”
Speakers:

> John Ware - Presenter “Panorama” (including the Omagh Bomb

Programme)/Senior BBC Current Affairs journalist

> Michael Gallagher, father of Omagh Bomb victim/campaigner for

truth around the Omagh bomb

> Q&A

> Chair: Alban Maginness MLA

11.05am “POLICING AND OVERSIGHT AT TIMES OF THREAT -

HOW TO RESPOND”

Speakers:

> Dame Nuala O’Loan, former NI Police Ombudsman, Irish

Government Special Envoy to East Timor, Irish UN Special

Representative on Women and Peace-building

> Expert on policing and oversight mechanisms (TBA)

> Q&A

> Chair: Margaret Ritchie MLA

12.05pm “GATHERING INTELLIGENCE - THE STORY SO FAR”

Speakers:

> Barney Rowan - former Chief Security Correspondent BBC, senior                                Belfast Telegraph journalist

> Brendan Duddy - Derry businessman, contact between the British                              Government/Security Service and Republicans

> John Ware - presenter on a range of investigative programmes on

Northern Ireland

> Q&A

> Chair: Dolores Kelly MLA

12.55pm SEMINAR CLOSE

> Dolores Kelly MLA

1.00pm FINGER BUFFET - Launch of Patten 10^th Anniversary Events - Mark Durkan, MP, MLA

Tags: Alex Attwood

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