Northern Ireland Police chief says 'hard Brexit' Irish border would be paramilitary target Fortified frontier would put officers’ lives at risk, says George HamiltonGeorge Hamilton: security policy in Ireland needs ‘something cleverer than a hard border’. He described as “severe” the violent threat from the New IRA and other terrorist groups opposed to the peace settlement in Northern Ireland. In an interview with the Guardian, the officer , who has one of the most challenging policing jobs in Europe, said security policy in Ireland needed “something cleverer than a hard border”. There were 10 to 12 foreign criminal gangs operating in Northern Ireland, some of them working in collusion with criminal loyalist factions, he said. The Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland is researching about 100 cases that “paedophile hunters” have reported in terms of alleged child abusers.

Source: The Guardian February 07, 2018 14:17 UTC