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12/03/2009
Bomb Alert Fails To Cloud Upbeat Policing Message
While police chiefs from Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic were meeting in Belfast to tackle the dissidents behind the murders of two soldiers and a policeman during the past week, a bomb alert in Co Down showed that their level of alertness for terrorist activity remains high.
An upbeat PSNI Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde said the two forces were working together on assessing the security threat posed by the dissidents, while at the same time, roads around Ballykinler and its huge Army camp were being closed off.
The scare followed the discovery of an "object" at Blackstaff Bridge.
The alert came just weeks after a deadly car bomb - abandoned near Castlewellan - was thought to have been destined for the same Ballykinler army base.
The same dissident republicans as were responsible for this week's three murders were blamed on that failed bomb attack.
However, soon after An Gardá Siochána Commissioner Fachtna Murphy was commenting that an attack on a police officer was an "attack on the whole of society", the Co Down vehicle check-points were being removed.
By mid afternoon, the suspect object was declared "not suspicious" and the security operation scaled down.
(BMcC)
An upbeat PSNI Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde said the two forces were working together on assessing the security threat posed by the dissidents, while at the same time, roads around Ballykinler and its huge Army camp were being closed off.
The scare followed the discovery of an "object" at Blackstaff Bridge.
The alert came just weeks after a deadly car bomb - abandoned near Castlewellan - was thought to have been destined for the same Ballykinler army base.
The same dissident republicans as were responsible for this week's three murders were blamed on that failed bomb attack.
However, soon after An Gardá Siochána Commissioner Fachtna Murphy was commenting that an attack on a police officer was an "attack on the whole of society", the Co Down vehicle check-points were being removed.
By mid afternoon, the suspect object was declared "not suspicious" and the security operation scaled down.
(BMcC)
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