Police Service of Northern Ireland

Police treat dog mess as crime priority and issue owners with £50 fines

Police are treating dog mess as a crime priority, by launching patrols to catch owners who let their pets foul the pavements and issuing them with £50 fines. By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent Officers in Nottinghamshire...

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Cumbria floods: Pc Bill Barker died on eve of his birthday

Pc Bill Barker, the traffic officer swept to his death in the Cumbrian floods, had been due to celebrate his 45th birthday with his young family this weekend, it has emerged. Pc Bill Barker and the bridge in Workington where he...

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Police chiefs threaten to quit over Tory plans to put them under orders of local mayors

Police chiefs may quit if a Tory government presses ahead with plans to put forces under the control of local commissioners, the senior officers' leader warned today. Sir Hugh Orde, President of the Association of Chief Police...

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Powers transfer would 'hit dissident support' :: Irish News -- William Graham

By William Graham Political Correspondent Devolution of policing and justice powers should take place now as it would do much to draw support away from dissident republicans, Maurice Hayes said yesterday. The former Patten...

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Taxpayer hit with STG174k bill for Clinton security :: The News Letter

Published Date: 20 November 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's one-day visit to Northern Ireland last month cost the taxpayer almost £175,000 in policing costs, it can be revealed. The expenditure came to light...

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I'm a victim, says Hughes :: Newry Democrat -- Claire Treanor

THE south Armagh man at the centre of a major financial investigation has claimed he is the victim of a politically motivated campaign, writes Claire Treanor. Sean Hughes also branded allegations by the Serious and Organised...

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Viable device made safe in Armagh

Police in Northern Ireland say an object found on the Friary Road in Armagh early this morning was a viable device. British army bomb experts made safe the device. The security alert has now ended and the road has been...

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British Army defuses armour-piercing mortar in Northern Ireland city; IRA dissidents blamed

DUBLIN, Ireland - British Army experts dismantled a suspected dissident IRA weapon Thursday that was designed to blast through the armoured walls of a passing police vehicle. The Police Service of ...

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Army at scene of security alert

Army technical officers and police are at the scene of a security alert in Armagh. A PSNI spokesman said they received a report late on Wednesday night that a suspicious device had been left in the Friary Road area. Friary Road...

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Bad idea: Political police

The debate over how to run the police force and whether some of its senior members should be elected is one of those arguments where each side is accusing the other of the same thing, like two tearful siblings each trying to...

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