Detectives in the North are enquiring into Twitter activity by people purporting to be police officers.

Detectives in the North are enquiring into Twitter activity by people purporting to be police officers.

A police officer has been shot and wounded in north Belfast, police said.

Sinn Féin has vehemently denied the IRA was involved in the Belfast murder last week of father-of-nine Kevin McGuigan.

Three men have been arrested in Co Donegal as part of a follow-up operation after a bomb was left under a PSNI officer's car in Derry.

Police have warned anti-terrorism resources should not be eroded by budget wrangling in the North.

Loyalist violence over the flying of the union flag will be firmly dealt with for as long as necessary, the North’s police chief declared after a fourth night of rioting.

SDLP Councillor Claire Hanna, her husband and their baby daughter have escaped injury after shots were fired at their home in East Belfast, hitting the front door and windows.

Politicians and church leaders are holding talks in the North this afternoon in an attempt to stem loyalist street violence over the flying of the Union flag.

The British government was given fresh warning today it could yet face the threat of industrial action by police officers in the North over pay.

THE head of a North police team examining more than 3,000 unsolved murders from the Troubles said he may pursue in the courts any politician suspected of involvement.

Rank and file police officers today heightened pressure on the British government to scrap plans for fugitive terrorist killers to be allowed back into the North without facing jail.

A police chief today urged officers to fire baton rounds sooner, in a bid to halt any repeat of the rioting that left nearly 90 people injured in Belfast.

Unionists may have to rethink whether they will take part in future selection panels for top posts in Northern Ireland’s police service after the appointment of Huge Orde as Chief Constable, it was claimed today.

Police officers in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly to reject a controversial new pay package, it was revealed today.