A new report by the Westminster Six County affairs committee revealed that in 2024, the Six Counties accounted for nearly one fifth of MI5’s operational and investigative resources.
The report also called for the PSNI to build a “cadet service” in order to try and build “better community relations” with young people from working-class, Catholic and ethnic minority backgrounds.
The report also revealed that the PSNI is well under their expectation (by nearly 2,000) of having 7,500 foot soldiers operating in the Six Counties. This is despite two recruitment campaigns in recent years by the heavily armed force targeting Nationalist and Republican communities which was outrightly rejected. Lasair Dhearg and other Republican groups were at the forefront of opposing these campaigns.
In response to the report, Liam Kelly from the “Police Federation” of the Six Counties also said that the PSNI faces an intolerable financial burden linked to issues regarding RUC collusion; the PSNI is heavily funding legal cases to protect former RUC officers.
The report reveals what everyone already knew about the PSNI; their link to the RUC, and the prevention of justice for the victims of state and RUC collusion is additionally causing them financial strain, alongside the pumping of significant resources into the targeting of Republicans and their communities.
The PSNI don’t have to look far to understand why they are consistently rejected by young people from working class, Catholic and ethnic minority backgrounds – they just have to look at their own publicly available statistics: people from Catholic backgrounds are twice as likely to be arrested or charged with a crime by bigoted PSNI personnel, as they continue their policy of recruitment of child informers.
The recommendation of the “Cadet Service” by Westminster for the PSNI, if implemented, will be another tool used to produce future foot soldiers for the front line force of British occupation in Ireland.
There is nothing normal about the PSNI.
