NI police at 'breaking point'

Police in Northern Ireland are over-stretched and some officers are at “breaking point”, the province’s policing chief warned today.

After 15 months of continuous street disorder and with the threat from dissident republican and loyalist paramilitary groups running at the highest level for five years, the cumulative pressures on resources left “little to deliver ordinary day-to-day policing,” said Acting Chief Constable Colin Cramphorn.