Northern Ireland police will not staff border checkpoints, chief says
Northern Ireland police will not staff border checkpoints, chief says

Northern Ireland police will not staff border checkpoints, chief says

The police in Northern Ireland will not staff border security after Brexit, the Police Service of Northern Ireland's chief constable said on Thursday.

"We will of course police the border as normal.But if the underpinning assumption is that you will see armed officerseffectively staffing checkpoints in various parts of the border area, no,"Simon Byrne said in comments reported by the Irish Times

"You're not going to see lines of Land Roverswaving vehicles over with PSNI people checking documents, goods, the back ofwhite vans and so on."

The chief constable told a public meeting ofthe Northern Ireland Policing Board that he will ask the British government for300 additional officers to bring the force's strength to 7,500, at a cost of 40million pounds ($49.31 million).

The extra officers are in addition to 200officers who are expected to be in place by March. A further 200 are to be redeployedfrom other duties to Brexit-related operations.

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