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Allister slams humiliation in Meigh

25 August 2009

Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:-

“Behind the bluster of the Chief Constable about the debacle in Meigh is the reality that he has presided over a politically-driven agenda which has delivered us a police service incapable of taking on terrorists, because it has been denuded of the numbers, back-up, surveillance aids and equipment with which to face down terrorism. Hence, the ignominy of 2 “community officers”, armed only with side arms, forced to surrender Meigh to the control of heavily-armed republican terrorists.

“Where were the surveillance towers that kept the security services informed of terrorist movements – gone, to pretend normality and placate Sinn Fein.

“Where was the back-up, military and policing, to call in to action and seal off Meigh - gone, to pretend normality and placate Sinn Fein.

“Where was the weaponry adequate to protect police officers from terrorist attack - gone, to pretend normality and placate Sinn Fein.

“Meigh, Newtownbutler and more of the same to come, I fear, is the product and inadequacy of the much vaunted “community policing”.

“However, the responsibility for this dangerous and humiliating position does not just lie with the Chief Constable, but with every party and politician signed up to the so called “peace process”, which spawns the politics and policing which we have in Northern Ireland today.  I hear some like Jeffrey Donaldson protest today, but the reality is that he and his present and former parties have endorsed the Belfast Agreement process which has given us not just terrorists in government, but policing diminished to the role of spectator of armed terrorists on our streets.”

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