Number of police agents in terror groups 'declining'

Around a quarter of police agents operating in Northern Ireland’s paramilitaries have been deactivated, a nationalist member of the province’s Policing Board claimed today.

Around a quarter of police agents operating in Northern Ireland’s paramilitaries have been deactivated, a nationalist member of the Policing Board claimed today.

During a lunch of a nationalist SDLP document outlining six steps to crack down on loyalist paramilitaries, West Belfast Assembly member Alex Attwood claimed headway was being made in the fight against both loyalist and republican organised crime.