Sinn Féin must back police reforms - SDLP

The British and Irish Governments were today urged to insist that Sinn Féin backs policing in Northern Ireland regardless what the next IRA statement says.

As officials in London and Dublin anxiously awaited the Provisionals’ response to Gerry Adams’ call for them to consider abandoning armed struggle, the nationalist SDLP’s Eddie McGrady accused republicans of playing games with the electorate over their commitment to democracy and on law and order.