Trimble to sound out UUP on joining police reform board

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was today preparing to sound out party officers on how the UUP should respond to the British Government’s invitation to join a board handling policing reforms in Northern Ireland.

Pro and anti-Good Friday Agreement unionists in the party are split over whether the UUP should sign up to the new policing arrangements in the North by participating on the 19 member Policing Board.