PSNI warns dissident threat growing

THE PSNI chief constable of Foyle District has warned of a growing dissident Republican threat in Derry with paramilitary groups mounting a recruiting drive in the area.

Chief Constable Chris Yates’s warning comes as the PSNI prepares to bury the force’s first member to be killed by terrorist activity since its foundation as the replacement to the RUC in 2001.

Constable Stephen Carroll was murdered on Monday night in the Craigavon area by the Continuity IRA, just two days after two British soldiers were killed by the rival dissident Republican faction, the Real IRA, in Co Antrim.