Brexit impact on land border could destabilise communities, says ex-police chief

Hugh Orde led the PSNI between 2002 and 2009, after the force replaced the RUC in 2001 (David Young/PA)

The implications of Brexit on the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic have the potential to destabilise communities and increase pressure on police, a former PSNI chief constable has said.

Hugh Orde said he hoped that “political failures” around the consequences of leaving the EU were not used as an opportunity by people who wanted to return to violence.