Adams denies nationalists deterred from police service

Nationalists and republicans are not being harassed or intimidated out of joining Northern Ireland’s new police service, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said today.

The West Belfast MP, speaking in his constituency, denied claims by the deputy chairman of the North’s Policing Board, Denis Bradley, that while no physical intimidation was taking place Sinn Fein tactics were designed to deter young nationalists from joining the Police Service of Northern Ireland.