Agent_Smith
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Whatever the fook next?
How can you even contemplate allowing people who broke the law as a living (career criminals) to become involved in the police?
Surely this goes against all that the police force stand for?
This is one argumnet that im full square behind that cnut Paisley!
How can you even contemplate allowing people who broke the law as a living (career criminals) to become involved in the police?
Surely this goes against all that the police force stand for?
This is one argumnet that im full square behind that cnut Paisley!
[C]Telegraph.co.ukConvicted terrorists could be allowed to join the Police Service of Northern Ireland under plans being explored by the Government to expunge their criminal records.
Northern Ireland politicians are increasingly worried that Tony Blair will make the concession to Sinn Fein / IRA and remove the bar which prevents paramilitaries from becoming police officers.
Unionists and the SDLP, the province's moderate nationalist party, say that allowing bombers and gunmen to join the police would go well beyond the changes set out in the 1999 Patten commission, which stated that serious criminals should not be allowed to join the police when it reformed the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
The SDLP has become so alarmed that a series of meetings has been held with ministers and officials to outline its worries.
Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Unionist Party, which are furious at plans to withdraw troops from Ulster and disband the Royal Irish Regiment, have said the proposal would destabilise the peace negotiations still more.
The parties argue that the move would further legitimise the unofficial enforcer role played in Roman Catholic and Protestant communities by former republican and loyalist paramilitaries.
They believe that the proposal was negotiated by Sinn Fein during Government talks that preceded the IRA's promise formally to end its armed campaign in July.
Sinn Fein politicians would like to see the records of IRA terrorists, whom they regard as political prisoners, wiped clean...