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Article: How policing is crucial to Sinn Fein
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- September 4, 2008
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Suppose they gave a crisis and nobody came? Suppose Sinn Fein and
the DUP told us to tremble because Stormont would collapse in the
morning over the other side's attitude to policing, and everybody
said, "Away o' that," and went on about their business?
Could it happen? Will Sinn Fein walk out if the DUP doesn't agree
a fixed early date for devolution of policing?
It cannot be the effect of devolution on the practicalities of
policing which has agitated Sinn Fein.
I haven't heard a single Sinn Fein community worker say, re
joyriding, drugs, anti-social behaviour and the like, that what's
needed here is devolution of policing powers.
It's hard to see what day-to-day difference devolution ...