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Newsday

is being put injeopardy but what they have seen. this morning's emergency meeting here at the policing board had been due to last for around two hours. the chief constable, simon byrne, had cut a holiday short to be here, but four hours later, he was still answering questions from politicians about the data breaches. recent attacks will be fresh in the minds of officers here. dissident republican terrorists shot and seriously injured this senior detective, john caldwell, just a few months ago. daily routines for police in northern ireland involve checking for explosives under their vehicles and varying the way they travel. some of them work in particularly sensitive areas for m15 and in covert operations. today, policing board members said officers were anxious and fearful. i can only imagine the stress that this is causing some families. i think right across the organisation, but particularly for officers from nationalist

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BBC News at Ten

daily routines for police in northern ireland involve checking for explosives under their vehicles and varying the way they travel. some of them work in particularly sensitive areas for m15 and in covert operations. today policing board members said officers were anxious and fearful. i can only imagine the stress that this is causing some families. i think right across the organisation, but particularly for officers from nationalist backgrounds who have been subject to a higher level of threat over the years. a separate data breach happened injuly when documents, a police radio and a laptop with officers' details were stolen from a car, but that wasn't made public until yesterday. we have means of wiping those devices remotely. you will also be aware that laptops are protected by passwords. the priority for the psni will be keeping its staff safe. after that, it will

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Newsday

this morning's emergency meeting here at the policing board had been due to last for around two hours. the chief constable, simon byrne, had cut a holiday short to be here, but four hours later, he was still answering questions from politicians about the data breaches. recent attacks will be fresh in the minds of officers here. dissident republican terrorists shot and seriously injured this senior detective, john caldwell, just a few months ago. daily routines for police in northern ireland involve checking for explosives under their vehicles and varying the way they travel. some of them work in particularly sensitive areas for m15 and in covert operations. today, policing board members said officers were anxious and fearful. i can only imagine the stress that this is causing some families. i think right across the organisation, but particularly for officers from nationalist backgrounds who have been subject to a higher level of threat over the years.

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BBC News

and staff published online, and that includes, of course, police officers working in the most sensitive of areas, including police officers that were working with m15, the british security service. so politicians sitting on that policing board will want answers to some key questions. firstly, how on earth could this happen? secondly, how are the police force going to ensure that this can never happen again? and crucially, what is the police force doing to ensure the safety of police officers in northern ireland? we know, sara, that they've updated their security advice for officers. and in the past that's included things like checking under cars to make sure there's no explosive devices and also varying routes to and from work. and the police federation, which represents officers here, say they have been inundated with calls from worried officers and their families because when you speak to police officers here, they know it's a worrying situation at the best of times. one woman told the bbc that she's not even told her children

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BBC News Now

he also said that he knew public trust was now an issue. now, one of the key questions that had emerged from this data breach was, had it fallen into the wrong hands? this list of officers? essentially, into the hands of dissident republicans. now, they were behind the attack on a senior detective in february, and attempted murder in 0magh, so there was concern, perhaps, that list had fallen into their hands, so simon byrne was asked about that, and at this point he said the psni, the police force in northern ireland, hadn't been able to verify the substance behind those claims, but that was obviously something they were investigating. he also said he was deeply sorry for what had happened and also he was asked, had any officers had to be rehoused after their names emerge? because this list included people working at the highest level of security clearance, people working with m15

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BBC News at One

northern ireland, offices operate every day under a severe terrorist threat. the last attack by dissident republicans was just a few months ago in february when a senior police officer was shot and seriously injured after a football coaching session. apologies have been made already by senior staff to rank and file officers, but will that be enough for the 10,000 people whose details have been put out there in public view? today we heard from the police federation, which represents rank—and—file officers. they say that already hundreds of police officers have raised safety concerns with them. some of them even work at northern ireland �*s m15 base, particularly sensitive intelligence roles. 0fficers we have spoken to in the last few days live their life under this threat. they are only too aware of the danger that theirjobs can bring. they are very aware

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BBC News Now

in northern ireland and garda senior judges from terrorist attack, people who are working in armed response units, in pilots, in the air unit, and almost a0 psni officers who are revealed in this document to be stationed at m15's headquarters in northern ireland in county down. that's just astonishing information, to even be released internally, within the psni, let alone just to be dumped into the public like this. so the information, the data, sam, is classified from what you are saying, but what kind of numbers are we talking about, how many officers are affected here? 6,500 psni officers, the remainder of the 10,000 number is made up of people who are not police officers, but who are working for the police, some of them in very sensitive roles but some who are typists or working at a level which is not significant

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BBC News Now

is among some of the most sensitive data which the psni holds. some of these people are identified as working in intelligence, in surveillance, in close protection teams to guard senior politicians in northern ireland and garda senior judges from terrorist attack, people who are working in armed response units, in pilots, in the air unit, and almost a0 psni officers who are revealed in this document to be stationed at m15's headquarters in northern ireland in county down. that's just astonishing information, to even be released internally, within the psni, let alone just to be dumped into the public like this. so the information, the data, sam, is classified from what you are saying, but what kind of numbers are we talking about, how many officers are affected here?— are affected here? 6500 psni officers, are affected here? 6500 psni officers. the _ are affected here? 6500 psni officers, the remainder -

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The Daily Global

had not been followed by was amazed, shocked and i was deeply worried. i can feel for how those police officers who live under daily threat and have done for many years. but even now, although we have the process of peace the threat to police officers and others is not yet over for that m15 had given warnings about the threat from the latest and most dangerous dissident organisation, the so—called new ria. the dissidents came into being at the time of the good friday agreement —— ria. when they split from the mainstream ria because they thought the mainstream ria had sold out byjoining the good friday agreement. since then there have been various dissident splinter groups, which in 2012 came together in the form of the new ria. this is

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