PSNI brand posters depicting injured Catholic officer ‘cruel and disgusting’

The posters use a picture of Peadar Heffron along with a warning that anyone thinking of joining the police could suffer similar injuries.

PSNI brand posters depicting injured Catholic officer ‘cruel and disgusting’
Wed, 12 Feb, 2020 - 16:40
Press Association

Police have branded as “cruel and disgusting” anti-PSNI recruitment posters depicting an officer who was severely injured in a dissident republican bomb attack.

The posters use a picture of Peadar Heffron along with a warning that anyone thinking of joining the police could suffer similar injuries.

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