North’s anti-terror unit seeks online powers

New legislation is needed to give police greater powers to investigate potential terrorist activity online, the head of the North’s anti-terror unit has insisted.

Detective Superintendent Kevin Geddes said that technology had overtaken current laws governing what data officers could and could not access to combat extremism.

Mr Geddes, who leads the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s Terrorism Investigation Unit, expressed fears of “going dark” on the online contacts between potential dissident republicans.