Policing Board vice-chairman Denis Bradley has returned to work six weeks after he was attacked and injured in a Derry bar.Bradley returns to work after attack
Mr Bradley was assaulted in the pub in Brandywell when a lone attacker struck him on the forehead with a baseball bat.
Dissident republicans are thought to have been behind the assault which followed a series of attacks on Mr Bradley's home.
Sir Desmond Rea, Policing Board chairman, welcomed Mr Bradley back to work at a public session of the board.
Board members discussed plans for a system of local restorative justice, amid SDLP concerns that British government plans could mean a transfer of policing and justice powers to republican communities.
West Belfast SDLP Assembly member Alex Attwood asked PSNI Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde if he felt that community restorative justice ideas under discussion represented a workable model.
Mr Attwood said it was important that the PSNI put into the public domain its views on speculation about what the soon- to-be-published restorative justice protocols may contain.
"People want an ordinary police service," Sir Hugh said. The police should be "an integral part" of any restorative justice scheme. Such schemes, designed to deal with young offenders while keeping them out of the court system were "a third way" and should operate along the same lines as those in any part of the UK.
"I have made our position explicit. That's what I see as community restorative justice."