{"id":397415,"date":"2025-09-04T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397415\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:06:13","slug":"bonfires-northern-ireland-psni-boss-jon-boutcher-hits-out-at-repeated-failure-of-others-to-tackle-issues-that-leaves-police-stepping-in-last-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397415\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonfires, Northern Ireland: PSNI boss Jon Boutcher hits out at \u2018repeated failure of others\u2019 to tackle issues\u00a0that \u2018leaves police stepping in last minute\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Chief Constable also warned that \u2018underfunded PSNI could struggle to police future events such as The Open again\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Name of PSNI officer who survived murder attempt appears on republican bonfire in Derry<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has said the failure of others to tackle bonfire-related issues left police \u201cstepping in at the last minute\u201d once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking at this month\u2019s public meeting of the Policing Board, the senior officer explained that this summer, around 300 bonfires were held across Northern Ireland, with 16 flagged as causing concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chief Constable also warned that \u2018underfunded PSNI could struggle to police future events such as The Open again\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,24406,5825,1144,137218,94225,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-397415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-jon-boutcher","10":"tag-niamh-campbell","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-psni-data-breach","13":"tag-the-twelfth","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115146416677866426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}