'A high visibility policing operation' will get underway in the coming days and weeks, coinciding with President Biden's visit to Northern Ireland.
"Communities across Northern Ireland will see an increase in policing activity over the next few weeks as a high visibility policing operation gets underway to counter the continuing dissident threat," Police Service of Northern Ireland Assistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton confirmed toPresident Biden is expected to land in Northern Ireland on Tuesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday accord.
Some police officers will move to 12-hour shift patterns, with vehicle checkpoints in Northern Ireland possibly causing"inconvenience" to residents and members of the public, ACC Singleton added.which indicates that a terrorist attack is highly likelyA local resident walks past a loyalist paramilitary mural on April 4, 2023 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
In February, Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell, an off-duty police officer, was shot in Omagh, County Tyrone. "In recent months, we have seen an increase in levels of activity relating to Northern Ireland Related Terrorism, which has targeted police officers serving their communities and also put at risk the lives of children and other members of the public," UK Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said in a statement announcing the change to the terror threat level.
"These attacks have no support, as demonstrated by the reaction to the abhorrent attempted murder of DCI Caldwell," Heaton-Harris added.query of reports of a"bomb plot," allegedly organized by the New IRA organization. On Sunday, thereported that police had"uncovered a New IRA bomb plot aimed at eclipsing US President Joe Biden's visit to Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
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