Sinn Fein: Real police change need to break peace deadlock

The UK Government must provide republicans with a script of any amendments to policing legislation in Northern Ireland if the problems in the peace process are to be resolved, a senior Sinn Fein source claimed today.

As British and Irish officials prepared to present the province’s parties with proposals to safeguard the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Fein stressed they needed proof that there would be legislative change on policing if the problems in the peace process were to be smoothed over.