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In response to human rights concerns, PSNI required operators to set water pressure to a minimum and fitted water tanks with heaters to spare the sprinkled from hypothermia
By Emer Mullins, Contributor The latest proposed implementation plan on policing in Northern Ireland has been rejected by Sinn Féin, whose chairman Mitchell McLaughlin said the proposals – jointly put forward by the Irish and British governments – did not go far enough and failed to meet republican demands for radical change. However, in a move that widened the gulf between nationalists and republicans, the SDLP gave their backing to the controversial proposals. The proposals are a follow-up to the Patton Report, and the two governments hoped the new blueprint would be accepted by both...