Seven PSNI officers have denied in court they were guilty of perverting the course of justice in relation to a fatal road crash.
During the arraignment at Belfast Crown Court, two of them also denied they were guilty of causing the death of Raymond Joseph Boyle (21) by dangerous driving.
Mr Robert Hall (37), Mr John Hadley (40), Mr Richard Seve (52), Mr Deryck William Rothwell (33), Mr Stephen Thompson (46), Mr James Long (37) and Mr Alan Calvin (58), whose addresses were given as c/o Grosvenor Road PSNI Station, all denied charges of perverting the course of justice on May 1st and 2nd, 2001.
Mr Rothwell and Mr Thompson also deny causing death by dangerous driving on May 1st, 2001.
Charges were levelled against the seven officers after an investigation by the Police Ombudsman.
They relate to an incident on the Whiterock Road when a stolen Rover Metro was in collision with a police landrover.
Mr Boyle, from the Falls Road area, was in the passenger seat of the stolen car.
Four other people in the car, which had been stolen the day before in Castlereagh, were injured along with three of the police officers.
The seven officers were freed on continuing bail.