Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Peter Robinson says the expertise in the outgoing full time police can be harnessed in a civilian capacity. Jeffrey Donaldson’s so called deal breaker ‘retention as police officers or no devolution of policing and justice’ seems to have withered on the vine [see Jim Allister’s statement yesterday ] in the wake of a DUP chief constable meeting this afternoon. This...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The Democratic Unionists, the largest party, said they intended to raise the issue again of the disbandment of the full-time police reserve with the chief constable this week. “There is an operational need for these officers and for their experience and we will be raising our concern about their disbandment with the chief constable at a time when he should be retaining his resources,” said Jeffrey...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... by other key DUP figures including deputy leader Nigel Dodds, finance minister Sammy Wilson, Jeffrey Donaldson and many others.“The choice is not between some unionist panacea and the present form of devolution, but between devolution and direct rule with Dublin involvement. This party will continue to oppose Dublin rule,” Mr Robinson said.A lengthy section of his address was designed...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... the PSNI. The Chief Constable’s restatement on the reserves will come as a disappointment to Jeffrey Donaldson .
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... only precondition, but the fate of the reserve is a "key element" in that confidence. Jeffrey Donaldson indicated that he is not necessarily insisting that the reserve is retained as an entity but wants those officers keen on staying to be subsumed as uniformed members of the PSNI. Whilst this option sounds like an attractive compromise so far as the DUP is concerned Matt...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Following yesterday's embarrassing volte-face from DUP junior minister Jeffrey Donaldson, his Sinn Féin counterpart in the OFMDFM, Gerry Kelly...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
SINN FÉIN has warned the DUP against new preconditions on the transfer of policing and justice powers after DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson yesterday said the devolution of these powers could not happen if the police full-time reserve was abolished.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... decision to phase out the police full-time reserve by 2011.At the start of the week DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson appeared to set the retention of the full-time reserve as a precondition for transferring justice powers.On Wednesday Mr Robinson drew back from that position by accepting the operational independence of the chief constable regardless of his own opposition to disbanding the...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Normally, the printing of press releases without comment would be considered lazy churnalism. In this case I’m declaring upfront that that is what I’m doing with the last two Pressers we’ve received from Jim Allister’s office, largely be cause it has a certain journalistic merit all of its own. It maps the shift in Jeffrey Donaldson’s stance yesterday, when...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Another score on the board for Jim Allister. In an on air debate on the Nolan Show the TUV leader challenged the DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson to say there will be no devolution of policing and justice powers unless Chief Constable Matt Baggott rescinds his decision on full time police reserves. Jeffrey went for Jim’s bait and set another precondition in stone or so it appears....
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson says he does not believe policing and justice will be devolved if the full time police reserve is phased out.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
DUP and Sinn Féin clash over future of back-up police officers A justice and policing deal designed to stabilise Northern Ireland's power-sharing coalition appeared under threat today after a unionist minister warned that the powers could not be devolved unless Ulster's full-time reserve police force was maintained. Jeffrey Donaldson, the Democratic Unionist MP and Stormont assembly...
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... Allister called him a "political lackey". Under pressure from the TUV leader, the DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson appeared to make the retention of the full time reserve a "deal breaker" during an interview with the Nolan show. However this afternoon on Stormont Live Mr Donaldson appeared to shift ground indicating that his party wanted the 150 or so members of...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... least see if they can find common ground.His position was certainly different than that of DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson on BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan programme on Monday morning. Under pressure from Nolan and Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister, the Lagan Valley MP characterised disbanding the full-time reserve as a deal-breaker.This prompted the new PSNI chief constable...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... Constable Matt Baggott is phasing out full time reserveThen came the declaration by the DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson he believed there would be no devolution of policing and justice if the reserve was scrapped. The chief constable was both surprised and dismayed by the reaction. In a series of interviews on Tuesday, he was at pains to point out that the decision to phase out the reserve...
