A new boron doped diamond microcells (BDD) was modified, for rapid, selective and highly sensitive determination of nitrite, using a coating film of polyoxometalates (POMs), formed by cyclic voltammetry on the molecular p-phenylenediamine (PPD) functionalized BDD. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) technique was used to examine the morphology of (PPD/SiW11) modified (BDD) electrode. It was found that (SiW11) layer was uniformly formed on the electrode surface. It was observed that (BDD/PPD/SiW11) showed excellent electrocatalytic activities towards nitrite ion. Under the selected conditions, the anodic peak maximum at -0.6V was linear versus nitrite concentration in the 40 mu M-4 mM range, and the detection limit obtained was 20 mu M. The newly developed electrode has been successfully applied to the determination of nitrite content in real river water samples.