Allister condemns Republicanisation of the Police
08 April 2008
Traditional Unionist Jim Allister has condemned the placing of a PSNI recruitment advert in a Donegal newspaper which carried the strap line, “It’s your community. This is your chance to help make it safer”. Commenting the MEP said:
“I am appalled that the Police Service of Northern Ireland are advertising in newspapers in the Republic. The advert even expressed the salary of police offices in Euros.
“I have written to the Chief Constable asking how widespread the practice of advertising for recruits in the Republic’s press is and what the response has been to this campaign. I have also highlighted the fact that it is inaccurate to claim that citizens of the Republic will be serving “their community” if they join the PSNI. Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom.
“However, this is yet another telling example of how our constitutional position is threatened by the all-Ireland harmonisation process of the Belfast/St Andrews Agreement”.
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