Concern republicans will police neighbourhoods

COMMUNITY justice proposals for the North could lead to republican “warlords” controlling policing in their neighbourhoods while keeping the PSNI at arm’s length, it was claimed last night.

The SDLP, unionist parties, and both main opposition parties in the Republic expressed grave reservations about guidelines for community restorative justice (CRJ) schemes, issued yesterday by the North’s justice minister David Hanson.

Sinn Féin, however, welcomed the proposals.