The PSNI has received strong community intelligence that dissident republicans are planning to launch terror attacks against officers on Easter Monday.
POLICE SERVICE OF Northern Ireland Assistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton has said police have received strong community intelligence that dissident republicans are planning to launch terror attacks against officers on Easter Monday.
The news that dissident republicans are planning attacks on Easter Monday will spark international alarm, in part because US President Joe Biden is set to visit Belfast the day after to celebrate the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. “And there is also very strong community intelligence specifically coming forward in respect of Monday’s events in Derry/Londonderry and a real concern that there may be attempts to draw police in to serious public disorder and to use that then as a platform to launch terrorist attacks on police as well.
“We plan for the worst and we hope for the best to be quite frank, we will respond to the intelligence as it develops, we have no such intelligence that would support that at the moment,” he said. “So that is absolutely something that’s in the mind of myself and the police commanders as we approach that event, and it will be something that we’ll have to keep under constant review depending on how things develop on the day.”
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