Officer's murder prompts calls for NI security review

Rank-and-file police representatives today called for an urgent security review after a gunman shot dead the first PSNI officer in the North.

As First Minister Peter Robinson and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness postponed a planned visit to the United States, Chief Constable Hugh Orde was also urged to call in the SAS in a bid to thwart dissident republicans, who ambushed and killed two soldiers outside a military barracks 48 hours earlier.