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13/11/2007
McGuinness Appeals For Information On Police Murder Bid
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, the Assembly’s Deputy First Minister has called for anybody with information about the shooting of a police officer in Dungannon last night to bring it to the police.
"These people are attempting to plunge our society back into conflict," the MP and MLA said.
Detectives are treating the shooting of the off-duty officer, who is in his early 30s, as attempted murder but have already arrested a man and a woman.
The officer, who had just left work, was shot a number of times in an arm as he sat in his car at traffic lights.
He managed to drive back to Dungannon Police Station where he crashed into the front gates. He was taken to hospital, and is in a stable condition.
The shooting happened hours after the Real IRA admitted it shot an off-duty policeman last Thursday in Londonderry.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for rank-and-file police officers urged Provisional IRA members to tell detectives if they know who carried out this latest shooting.
Police Federation spokesman Terry Spence said: "Those people who were previously involved in the Provisional IRA are best placed to give information to the police about who these individuals are.
"They know who these dissident republicans are, and if they are signed up to the peace process, it's up to them also to do something about it and come forward to the police."
(BMcC)
"These people are attempting to plunge our society back into conflict," the MP and MLA said.
Detectives are treating the shooting of the off-duty officer, who is in his early 30s, as attempted murder but have already arrested a man and a woman.
The officer, who had just left work, was shot a number of times in an arm as he sat in his car at traffic lights.
He managed to drive back to Dungannon Police Station where he crashed into the front gates. He was taken to hospital, and is in a stable condition.
The shooting happened hours after the Real IRA admitted it shot an off-duty policeman last Thursday in Londonderry.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for rank-and-file police officers urged Provisional IRA members to tell detectives if they know who carried out this latest shooting.
Police Federation spokesman Terry Spence said: "Those people who were previously involved in the Provisional IRA are best placed to give information to the police about who these individuals are.
"They know who these dissident republicans are, and if they are signed up to the peace process, it's up to them also to do something about it and come forward to the police."
(BMcC)
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