TERRY SPENCER: “TAGLIATA” LA LOTTA AI DISSIDENTI
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In occasione della conferenza annuale della Police Federation, Terry Spencer denuncia le scarse risorse del PSNI per fronteggiare i dissidenti
Grido di allarme o forse una presa di coscienza le dichiarazioni rilasciate ieri da Terry Spencer in occasione della conferenza annuale della Police Federation presso il La Mon House hotel di Belfast.
“Nella determinazione di chiudere il capitolo sull’Irlanda del Nord, quale incubo politico e di sicurezza, il Psni si ritrova pericolosamente con risorse insufficienti”.
“Nonostante il deterioramento della situazione non abbiamo ancora affrontato la gravità della minaccia dissidente”.
Sono stati 420 i “dispositivi mortali” rinvenuti durante le indagini su 750 stati di allerta negli ultimi 2 anni.
Definendo i dissidenti come dei ‘dinosauri omicida’ pronti ad uccidere poliziotti e soldati “o chiunque sia associato con loro in alcun modo”, Terry Spencer ha anche aggiunto: “Siamo ancora in un periodo in cui il futuro politico è incerto, dove la minaccia del terrorismo è in crescita, piuttosto che in diminuzione, dove il disarmo dei lealisti sembra essere molto promettente, ma è incompleta, e in cui l’ordine pubblico viene facilmente incrinato”.
Ad ascoltare le parole allarmanti di Spencer, anche il neo Chief Constable Matt Baggott ed il ministro per la sicurezza Paul Goggings.
E’ stato proprio Baggott a sottolineare la certezza che la minaccia posta dai dissidenti viene presa molto sul serio.
“Ma il governo ancora ritiene opportuno consentire lo smantellamento delle nostre difese di polizia”, come ha dichiarato Terry Spencer.
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Police cuts ‘hit dissident fight’ (BBC News Northern Ireland)
Cutbacks are undermining the ability of police to tackle dissident republicans, the Police Federation has said.
Terry Spence, the chairman of the body which represents rank and file officers, said the PSNI was “dangerously under-resourced”.
He said at least 420 “viable devices” had been found in 750 security alerts caused by dissidents in Northern Ireland over the last two years.
The government has demanded the PSNI cuts £17m from its budget.
“In the determination to close the book on Northern Ireland as a political and security nightmare the PSNI has been dangerously under-resourced,” he told the federation’s annual conference in Belfast.
“Despite the deteriorating security situation we still have not faced up to the severity of the threat from dissidents.”
New PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott and Security Minister Paul Goggins were among guests invited to the La Mon House hotel in Belfast to hear Mr Spence’s address.
Mr Baggott said he believed the dissident threat was being taken very seriously.
“Everything I’ve seen since being appointed and before being appointed in the last few days is that the threat is being taken very seriously indeed,” he said.
‘Dinosaurs’
There has been an increase in dissident republican activity and police are currently running Operation Descent, aimed at disrupting any potential attack.
Mr Spence described the dissidents as “murderous dinosaurs” who were determined to kill police and soldiers “or anyone associated with them in any way”.
He also criticised the recent decisions to axe the 500-strong Full Time Reserve police and sell 26 stations to private developers.
“We are still in a period when the political future is uncertain, when the terrorist threat is growing rather than diminishing, when loyalist decommissioning looks promising but is incomplete, and when public order is easily broken,” he said.
“Yet the government still sees fit to permit the dismantling of our policing defences.”
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