Police board member receives death threat
A member of a board dealing with policing issues in Derry today received a death threat at her home.
Police have branded as “cowards” those who sent Marion Quinn, an independent member of the city’s district policing partnership, a Mass card and three bullets.
Superintendent Johnny McCarroll was “disgusted” by the incident which he said amounted to intimidation not just of her but her family.
“Local people who serve on the district policing partnerships and indeed join the PSNI and are the people of real courage in this community unlike the cowards who seek to intimidate anyone who wants to contribute to policing in a democratic society,” he said.
The DPPs were created under the set of police reforms implemented by the British government and initiated by a commission headed by former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten.
They work alongside the Police Service of Northern Ireland‘s 29 District Command Units in trying to meet local community policing needs and involve community leaders and local councillors.
Republicans have refused to endorse the new policing arrangements, insisting the reforms do not go far enough.
In May they broke up the inaugural meeting of Omagh’s District Policing Partnership.
