Catholic PSNI officers ‘urged to bring weapons to Mass’ after data breach

Personal details relating to over 10,000 PSNI officers and staff were mistakenly released in response to an innocuous freedom of information request (Picture: PA)

The head of the organisation representing Catholic PSNI officers says he has advised some of them to bring personal protection weapons to Mass in the aftermath of the police data breach.

Representatives from various policing organisations gave evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs committee on the security impact of the PSNI data breach that occurred last month.