O’Neill hopes attendance at PSNI graduation encourages more nationalists to join
Stormont First Minister Michelle O’Neill has expressed the hope that her attendance at a PSNI graduation ceremony will encourage more nationalists to join the police in Northern Ireland.
Ms O’Neill said she believed it was the “right juncture” in the region’s “policing journey” for Sinn Fein to be represented at an attestation event for new recruits for the first time.
The Sinn Fein vice president became Northern Ireland’s first ever nationalist first minister last weekend when powersharing returned to Northern Ireland.
She broke new ground again on Friday when she and party colleague Gerry Kelly attended the passing out event at the PSNI training college in east Belfast.
DUP deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly
