No respect for the border

Despite initial denials from the PSNI that they had been stopping vehicles at a checkpoint in the south.

Cllr McMahon said he did not accept a senior PSNI’s assertion that the checkpoint was on the Fermanagh side of the border. The officer said the PSNI were assisting the NI Dept. of the Environment in carrying out a traffic census

They have now come clean:

The PSNI has admitted that officers stopping cars near Belleek this week were operating outside their jurisdiction. A spokesperson had intitally [sic] stated the checkpoint had been on the Fermanagh side of the border last Monday.


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