Senior police officers hold cross-border meeting

More than 100 high-ranking police officers from both sides of the Irish border staged a formalised meeting for the first time today - in line with a recommendation incorporated in the report on policing in Northern Ireland by European Commissioner and former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten.

Delegations at the get-together - at the Garda college at Templemore - were headed by Garda Commissioner Pat Byrne, and Colin Cramphorn, acting Chief Constable of the new Police Service of Northern Ireland.