Police must earn trust: McGuinness

The Police Service of Northern Ireland will have to earn the trust of republicans if Sinn Féin agrees to support it, Martin McGuinness insisted today.

Proposing a motion to Sinn Féin delegates at a special conference in Dublin to back the police in Northern Ireland for the first time in the party’s history, Mr McGuinness said: “The PSNI are going to have to earn our trust. They are not going to get our trust tomorrow morning or after this vote - they are going to have to earn it.