Sinn Fein's twin tactics on policing - Durkan

Sinn Fein will eventually sign up to Northern Ireland’s new policing structures on the back of others’ work on the Police Board, Stormont Deputy First Minister Mark Durkan claimed today.

As the third drive in the province for recruits to the new Police Service of Northern Ireland prepared to get under way, the leader of the nationalist SDLP claimed in St Louis, Missouri, that a view was taking hold in Irish America that Sinn Fein’s opposition to the police was purely tactical.