Operation Dissent

[MAGPIE]

PSNI step up dissident crackdown


The number of patrols and checkpoints is being stepped up
Police in Northern Ireland have begun what is being described as a major operation aimed at disrupting potential dissident republican activity.
Operation Dissent, which began at 1900 BST on Friday, will result in more police patrols and checkpoints in some areas across Northern Ireland.
New Chief Constable Matt Baggott takes over the reins of the PSNI on Tuesday.
It is understood senior police officers fear dissident republicans will attempt to mark his arrival with an attack.
The operation began as a second night of dissident-inspired rioting was getting under way in the County Armagh town of Lurgan.
Vans were hijacked and burnt on the main Belfast to Dublin railway line during trouble sparked by the jailing of three local men over a dissident republican mortar bomb plot to murder police.
In a statement, police said they would put a "high visibility" operation in place across Northern Ireland "following a recent increase in dissident republican activity".
'Murderous intent'
The PSNI said the operation would take place at a "variety of places and times".
"In addition to countering what police believe is an increase in threat from dissident republicans, the operation is designed to also prevent and detect travelling criminals and also influence driver behaviour, particularly in rural areas where there have been a number of tragic fatal crashes in recent weeks," the statement added.
"Police apologise in advance for the inconvenience this operation will cause, but seek the public's patience and support in what we believe is a necessary step to prevent those with murderous intent going about their business."

Last week, a 600lb bomb was defused at Forkhill in south Armagh, a device which police said was designed to kill its officers.
BBC reporter Natasha Sayee said there were fears among senior police officers that dissidents were planning a "spectacular attack" ahead of Mr Baggott's arrival.
Northern Ireland's watchdog on paramilitary activity, the Independent Monitoring Commission, said in May that the dissident threat was higher than at any time in the past five years.
Two months earlier, the dissident republican Real IRA killed two soldiers outside an Army base in Antrim, while later that month the Continuity IRA shot dead a policeman in Craigavon.
In January, a 300lb bomb was defused in Castlewellan, County Down. It is thought it was planted by dissident republicans trying to target the Ballykinler army base.
In May, the component parts of another fertiliser bomb were found near Rosslea in County Fermanagh.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8263983.stm

[mylestheslasher]

PSNI step up dissident crackdown


The number of patrols and checkpoints is being stepped up
Police in Northern Ireland have begun what is being described as a major operation aimed at disrupting potential dissident republican activity.
Operation Dissent, which began at 1900 BST on Friday, will result in more police patrols and checkpoints in some areas across Northern Ireland.
New Chief Constable Matt Baggott takes over the reins of the PSNI on Tuesday.
It is understood senior police officers fear dissident republicans will attempt to mark his arrival with an attack.
The operation began as a second night of dissident-inspired rioting was getting under way in the County Armagh town of Lurgan.
Vans were hijacked and burnt on the main Belfast to Dublin railway line during trouble sparked by the jailing of three local men over a dissident republican mortar bomb plot to murder police.
In a statement, police said they would put a "high visibility" operation in place across Northern Ireland "following a recent increase in dissident republican activity".
'Murderous intent'
The PSNI said the operation would take place at a "variety of places and times".
"In addition to countering what police believe is an increase in threat from dissident republicans, the operation is designed to also prevent and detect travelling criminals and also influence driver behaviour, particularly in rural areas where there have been a number of tragic fatal crashes in recent weeks," the statement added.
"Police apologise in advance for the inconvenience this operation will cause, but seek the public's patience and support in what we believe is a necessary step to prevent those with murderous intent going about their business."

Last week, a 600lb bomb was defused at Forkhill in south Armagh, a device which police said was designed to kill its officers.
BBC reporter Natasha Sayee said there were fears among senior police officers that dissidents were planning a "spectacular attack" ahead of Mr Baggott's arrival.
Northern Ireland's watchdog on paramilitary activity, the Independent Monitoring Commission, said in May that the dissident threat was higher than at any time in the past five years.
Two months earlier, the dissident republican Real IRA killed two soldiers outside an Army base in Antrim, while later that month the Continuity IRA shot dead a policeman in Craigavon.
In January, a 300lb bomb was defused in Castlewellan, County Down. It is thought it was planted by dissident republicans trying to target the Ballykinler army base.
In May, the component parts of another fertiliser bomb were found near Rosslea in County Fermanagh.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8263983.stm

Did the PSNI run out of letters or that they let Officer Dyslexia write the press release.

[orangeman]

Any excuse - coming out of Healy Park night after the junior final last night, they had a 3 mile long queue of traffic when the match had ended.


Very strategic location targeting all the dissidents in Healy Park no doubt. 

[gerry]

stopped more times in the last two days than in the last three years

[Orior]

Any excuse - coming out of Healy Park night after the junior final last night, they had a 3 mile long queue of traffic when the match had ended.


Very strategic location targeting all the dissidents in Healy Park no doubt. 

Exact same thing coming out of the Athletic Grounds on Friday evening. Would the dissidents be dumb enough to transport stuff when big GAA matches are on?

[orangeman]

Any excuse - coming out of Healy Park night after the junior final last night, they had a 3 mile long queue of traffic when the match had ended.


Very strategic location targeting all the dissidents in Healy Park no doubt. 

Exact same thing coming out of the Athletic Grounds on Friday evening. Would the dissidents be dumb enough to transport stuff when big GAA matches are on?

Coming out of Newry from the match was the same thing this evening.

[Cúig huaire]

Has someone in the PSNI/Special Branch been watching the wire or has Jimmy McNulty got a job in headquarters in Knock after losing his job with the Baltimore PD? For those of you who aren't fans of the wire I`ll set the scene. McNulty, pissed at not getting any overtime because of a cut in the Baltimore PD budget, took it upon himself to invent a serial killer who was stalking the city's homeless. To cut a long story short any time a homeless person was found dead McNulty made it look like he had been a victim of his fictitious serial killer. The city responded by throwing money at the PD, lots of overtime for McNulty and Co and everyone was happy, until the truth came out.
It has been well documented of late that the PSNI has money problems of its own, it is set to lose almost 20% of its annual budget and in my opinion someone may well be using the threat of dissident republicans to try to get some of that money back. The invisible bomb in Forkhill and the security alert in Fermanagh, that was predicted by a member of this board, being two examples of a threat to "national security". Very few people in South Armagh, other than Danny Kennedy and Willie Frazer, believe that there was bomb in Forkhill. If there was no bomb, then serious questions have to be asked as to what is really going on and why all local politicians are suddenly singing from the same hymn sheet.
Events earlier in the year showed that there is still a threat to the security forces in the north, but the so called dissidents are not going to leave a 600lb bomb in the republican heartland of South Armagh, where a bomb of that size would have caused multiple deaths and widespread destruction. The road that this bomb was supposed to have been left on is not a road that the police would use regularly if it all, yet that same police saw fit to leave what they described as a viable device for 3 days before even coming out to look for it, did they know something in advance?
They have got their overtime now and operation dissent will probably catch a few drunk drivers and people with no mot, but it probably wont catch one person with a gun or explosives. I would bet that their budget shortfall will also be found now that the bogey men are back.

[orangeman]

Has someone in the PSNI/Special Branch been watching the wire or has Jimmy McNulty got a job in headquarters in Knock after losing his job with the Baltimore PD? For those of you who aren't fans of the wire I`ll set the scene. McNulty, pissed at not getting any overtime because of a cut in the Baltimore PD budget, took it upon himself to invent a serial killer who was stalking the city's homeless. To cut a long story short any time a homeless person was found dead McNulty made it look like he had been a victim of his fictitious serial killer. The city responded by throwing money at the PD, lots of overtime for McNulty and Co and everyone was happy, until the truth came out.
It has been well documented of late that the PSNI has money problems of its own, it is set to lose almost 20% of its annual budget and in my opinion someone may well be using the threat of dissident republicans to try to get some of that money back. The invisible bomb in Forkhill and the security alert in Fermanagh, that was predicted by a member of this board, being two examples of a threat to "national security". Very few people in South Armagh, other than Danny Kennedy and Willie Frazer, believe that there was bomb in Forkhill. If there was no bomb, then serious questions have to be asked as to what is really going on and why all local politicians are suddenly singing from the same hymn sheet.
Events earlier in the year showed that there is still a threat to the security forces in the north, but the so called dissidents are not going to leave a 600lb bomb in the republican heartland of South Armagh, where a bomb of that size would have caused multiple deaths and widespread destruction. The road that this bomb was supposed to have been left on is not a road that the police would use regularly if it all, yet that same police saw fit to leave what they described as a viable device for 3 days before even coming out to look for it, did they know something in advance?
They have got their overtime now and operation dissent will probably catch a few drunk drivers and people with no mot, but it probably wont catch one person with a gun or explosives. I would bet that their budget shortfall will also be found now that the bogey men are back.

I would say you're right.

[thewobbler]

The dissidents are rioting in Lurgan, leaving bombs in South Armagh, and shooting soldiers in Antrim.


A sample GAAboard thread on the issue has produced 7 comments, including a bizarre PSNI overtime scam, 3 complaints about the tailbacks caused by searches, and a pedantic note on spelling.

The PSNI really can't win with thinking like this. They're doomed if they do, and doomed if they don't. And I suppose they'll somehow cop the blame when the dissidents actually do get around to killing civilians.

There really is a fucked up mindset prevalent in Northern Ireland.

[orangeman]

The dissidents are rioting in Lurgan, leaving bombs in South Armagh, and shooting soldiers in Antrim.


A sample GAAboard thread on the issue has produced 7 comments, including a bizarre PSNI overtime scam, 3 complaints about the tailbacks caused by searches, and a pedantic note on spelling.

The PSNI really can't win with thinking like this. They're doomed if they do, and doomed if they don't. And I suppose they'll somehow cop the blame when the dissidents actually do get around to killing civilians.

There really is a fucked up mindset prevalent in Northern Irel and.

True - they're rioting in Lurgan and what are the police doing ? They're standing watching them from miles away and the stopping cars coming out of GAA grounds.  F--ked up alright.

[Cúig huaire]

The dissidents are rioting in Lurgan, leaving bombs in South Armagh, and shooting soldiers in Antrim.

A bunch of teenagers rioting is now classed as "dissidents"? Whenever there was a riot in Derrybeg was that the IRA or was it local youths? It suits a certain agenda to blame everything on the so called dissidents and as for the bomb in Forkhill, its a bit like the Loch Ness Monster, some people claim to have seen it, but the locals dont believe a word of it.

[dodgy umpire]

several check points in south belfast. not known to be a hot bed for dissident republican activity. how do they decide who to pull over?

[Cúig huaire]

several check points in south belfast. not known to be a hot bed for dissident republican activity. how do they decide who to pull over?

Anyone without a "wear your poppy with pride" sticker on the windscreen.

[Orior]

several check points in south belfast. not known to be a hot bed for dissident republican activity. how do they decide who to pull over?

Some of that is probably to placate the great british unionst loyalist chattering classes who complain cause they dont see policemen out walking their beat.

[Roger]

The dissidents are rioting in Lurgan, leaving bombs in South Armagh, and shooting soldiers in Antrim.


A sample GAAboard thread on the issue has produced 7 comments, including a bizarre PSNI overtime scam, 3 complaints about the tailbacks caused by searches, and a pedantic note on spelling.

The PSNI really can't win with thinking like this. They're doomed if they do, and doomed if they don't. And I suppose they'll somehow cop the blame when the dissidents actually do get around to killing civilians.

There really is a fucked up mindset prevalent in Northern Ireland.

Your observations are of the Gaa Board.  I haven't heard one person up here make a comment like those you observe. The fucked up mindset is not prevalent in Northern Ireland.