Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly has asked for the postponement of a proposed recruitment campaign for the North's new police service.
Mr Kelly said that both Sinn Fein and the SDLP have yet to endorse the service and added that if advertising was to begin now, it would attract "the wrong type of people".
He said the Patten Report had envisaged a new police force which would bring republicans and nationalists into the fold and at present this ideal was not reflected in the Police Bill.