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18/07/2005
Two police officers injured in north Belfast
Two police officers have been injured following street violence in north Belfast.
The officers had been investigating a stone throwing incident at houses in Alliance Avenue off the Ardoyne Road.
A woman police officer sustained a shoulder injury and a male officer suffered a wound to his hand. Both officers have received treatment for their injuries.
Last week, following violent street unrest in Belfast, the Chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, Irwin Montgomery, expressed "grave concern" that police tactics to deal with rioting were proving "ineffective".
“It is clear that with over 80 officers injured in one night at Ardoyne, the evidence is that rioters are not being held sufficiently far back to prevent injury to officers," said Mr Montgomery. "These incidents are turning into a war of attrition on the Police Service and it is totally unacceptable that we are failing to subdue the rioters sufficiently to send them home or make arrests.
"The Federation has had assurances from the Chief Constable that the authority is there to fire impact rounds. Unless more forceful tactics are employed earlier in the confrontations, sooner or later officers will become severely injured or even killed.”
(SP)
The officers had been investigating a stone throwing incident at houses in Alliance Avenue off the Ardoyne Road.
A woman police officer sustained a shoulder injury and a male officer suffered a wound to his hand. Both officers have received treatment for their injuries.
Last week, following violent street unrest in Belfast, the Chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, Irwin Montgomery, expressed "grave concern" that police tactics to deal with rioting were proving "ineffective".
“It is clear that with over 80 officers injured in one night at Ardoyne, the evidence is that rioters are not being held sufficiently far back to prevent injury to officers," said Mr Montgomery. "These incidents are turning into a war of attrition on the Police Service and it is totally unacceptable that we are failing to subdue the rioters sufficiently to send them home or make arrests.
"The Federation has had assurances from the Chief Constable that the authority is there to fire impact rounds. Unless more forceful tactics are employed earlier in the confrontations, sooner or later officers will become severely injured or even killed.”
(SP)
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