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21/03/2008
Adams Attacks Police
Despite decades of violent - often deadly - opposition to the police's presence in west Belfast, Sinn Fein Leader, Gerry Adams has claimed the PSNI is "not up to the job".
The top republican's verbal attack on the police service's handling of anti-social behaviour, its response to calls from members of the public reporting crime, and to information passed on to it was aired on BBC Radio Ulster yesterday.
Speaking as the West Belfast MP, he was commenting after a 20-year-old man appeared before magistrates in Belfast over the weekend murder of 51-year-old former republican prisoner Frank 'Bap' McGreevy - a close associate and former prison-cellmate of Mr Adams.
He said: "The fact is that the PSNI is not up to the job at this time of providing the civic policing service that the public demands and needs.
"While I accept that there are many within the PSNI who want to provide a proper civic policing service, the reality at this time is that the PSNI is failing to deliver; it is failing to deliver on call out times, on responding to information from the public, in its investigations of anti-social and organised crime. So, a lot of work has to be done to make it a fit for purpose policing service."
Mr McGreevy, 51, died on Tuesday after being on a life support machine in the wake of Saturday's attack in Ross Street.
His killing and the murder of 65-year-old grocer Harry Holland last September have heightened crime fears in west Belfast.
(BMcC)
The top republican's verbal attack on the police service's handling of anti-social behaviour, its response to calls from members of the public reporting crime, and to information passed on to it was aired on BBC Radio Ulster yesterday.
Speaking as the West Belfast MP, he was commenting after a 20-year-old man appeared before magistrates in Belfast over the weekend murder of 51-year-old former republican prisoner Frank 'Bap' McGreevy - a close associate and former prison-cellmate of Mr Adams.
He said: "The fact is that the PSNI is not up to the job at this time of providing the civic policing service that the public demands and needs.
"While I accept that there are many within the PSNI who want to provide a proper civic policing service, the reality at this time is that the PSNI is failing to deliver; it is failing to deliver on call out times, on responding to information from the public, in its investigations of anti-social and organised crime. So, a lot of work has to be done to make it a fit for purpose policing service."
Mr McGreevy, 51, died on Tuesday after being on a life support machine in the wake of Saturday's attack in Ross Street.
His killing and the murder of 65-year-old grocer Harry Holland last September have heightened crime fears in west Belfast.
(BMcC)
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