SF policing motion criticised by unionists

Sinn Féin was today accused of "bowling short" in its motion to party members to endorse the police in the North.

Democratic Unionist MEP Jim Allister said the motion for a special Sinn Féin conference in Dublin on January 28 was unacceptable because it made support for the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) conditional on the formation of a powersharing government and assurances that policing and justice powers would be transferred.