PSNI Chief Constable to be pressed for answers over journalist surveillance revelations

PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher. File Picture: Liam McBurney/PA

Northern Ireland’s Chief Constable is to be pressed over revelations around surveillance powers.

A hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in London on Wednesday heard claims that police in Northern Ireland undertook six-monthly trawls of the phone data of “troublemaker” journalists to see if they were in contact with officer sources.