{"id":684099,"date":"2026-01-09T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684099\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:44:11","slug":"mugshots-to-be-released-routinely-under-new-psni-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684099\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugshots to be released &#8216;routinely&#8217; under new PSNI policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A PSNI spokesperson said: &#8220;For justice to be seen to be done, we want to communicate to the public, by all means available, of positive criminal justice outcomes in their communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This can be achieved through our news releases post-sentencing, and now, the release of the defendants&#8217; custody images as part of this information supplied to the media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The spokesperson said this would be &#8220;in line with other police services across the UK and in accordance with legislation applicable in Northern Ireland, police service policy, European Convention on Human Rights and data protection principles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This will be an effective way to build confidence among communities, act as a deterrent to offenders and provide reassurance about the proactive steps police are taking to bring perpetrators before the courts,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A PSNI spokesperson said: &#8220;For justice to be seen to be done, we want to communicate to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115864263944011629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684099","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=684099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}