SF will not support police college, yet

Policing issues dominated the political debate before the collapse of the devolved institutions in October last year, since when they have taken something of a back seat. However, it makes a brief return, with Sinn Fein chairman Mitchell McLoughlan telling the Derry Journal that he cannot support the siting of a training college in the NW, until such times as the PSNI pass political muster, presumably under the terms of the Acts of Completion that were so much of the focus of the various negotiations last winter and spring.


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