‘Police details’ poster in bus shelter contained incorrect info – PSNI
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poster positioned in a bus shelter in Northern Ireland claiming to reveal private particulars on three serving cops contained incorrect info, the PSNI has stated.
The police had launched an investigation into the incident in Chapel Road in Dungiven, Co Londonderry, on Thursday.
The poster was positioned within the shelter weeks after the main points of about 10,000 officers and workers had been mistakenly launched on-line in a serious PSNI information breach.
However, offering an replace on the Dungiven investigation on Friday night, PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd stated the knowledge purportedly revealed by the poster was incorrect.
This was a transparent try to intimidate cops, workers and their households, however police can verify that the knowledge contained on the poster is wrong
“We are aware that a poster claiming to contain details of three serving officers was placed near a bus shelter on Chapel Road in Dungiven last night, Thursday August 31,” he stated.
“This was a clear attempt to intimidate police officers, staff and their families, but police can confirm that the information contained on the poster is incorrect.”
Last month, particulars of officers and workers, together with the surname and first preliminary of each worker, their rank or grade, the place they’re primarily based and the unit they work in had been launched in response to a Freedom of Information request.
The PSNI has confirmed the record is within the palms of dissident republicans, who proceed to focus on officers.
The admission got here after redacted info from the breach was posted on the wall of a library in west Belfast close to a Sinn Fein workplace.
Just earlier this yr Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell was shot numerous occasions at a leisure facility in Co Tyrone.
Police officers and their consultant organisations have spoken out in latest weeks over concern for his or her security.
Plenty of different information breaches have since come to mild, together with the lack of a police officer’s laptop computer and pocket book which contained particulars of 42 officers and members of workers after the objects fell from a transferring car.
An unbiased evaluate of the circumstances of the info breach is to be carried out, led by City of London Police Assistant Commissioner Peter O’Doherty.
It will take a look at course of and actions resulting in the breach and if any organisational, governance or administration points allowed it to occur.
Last month a person appeared in courtroom in Co Antrim charged with two terror offences referring to the info breach.