31-05-2018 21:28 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Northern Ireland police demand extra resources for post-Brexit

Northern Ireland's police will ask the British government for hundreds more officers to help secure the province's border with Ireland after Britain leaves the European Union, a senior police official said on Thursday.Authorities on both sides of the now-open frontier fear a return to a hard border, complete with customs and other checks, could reignite the violence that afflicted Northern Ireland until a peace deal in the late 1990s.Northern Ireland Police Federation (PSNI) chairman Mark Lindsa
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