News that one-third of police stations here, including Dunmurry police station, are to close over the next three years has been welcomed by Sinn Féin.The PSNI are recommending 35 stations of their 82 stations are to shut as part of their estate strategy. The move is a bid to meet future policing requirements.
Archive | November, 2011
‘Worst policing in years’
A LOCAL political representative has accused the PSNI of “community harassment” after police were called to investigate a suspicious device in the Colin area on Monday.Sinn Féin Councillor Stephen Magennis told the Andersonstown News that the PSNI conducted the “worst type of policing I have seen in years” after a number of people were stopped and searched. Mr Magennis said those searched were mystified locals using the Laurel Glen bar, a bookmakers and surrounding shops.
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HE lives up to pledges on tackling anti-social behavior
Work has begun to improve an area of a South Belfast community blighted with anti-social behaviour by young people.
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Left to their own free will what will unionists change?
You may not have heard it – you may have been busy greasing the cat’s boil or doing some equally useful work – but Monday morning last callers to The Stephen Nolan Show on BBC Radio Ulster/Raidio Uladh were discussing free will. “Eh?” you say. “A free will phone-in on a Monday morning? Bit airy-fairy, that”.
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Striders aiming for Seeley Cup title
Annadale Striders are once again hoping Ormeau Park will be a happy hunting ground as the South Belfast club aims for both individual and team glory at the Podium 4 Sport Seeley Cup.
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Local cop shops to be closed and sold off
Two of South Belfast’s main police stations are believed to be earmarked for closure and their lands sold off as part of ongoing reductions by the Policing Board.
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