Police Finds Bomb at Recruitment Event in Northern Ireland

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has mentioned in a press release that a homemade bomb was detected at a hotel in Northern Ireland where police recruitment event was to be hosted. The statement explained that the bomb was secured by army bomb disposal officers on Saturday.

The authorities have suggested that the bomb threat was related to the 1998 peace deal that basically ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland between Protestants, who wanted to remain British and Catholics favouring unification with the Irish republic. However sporadic violence remain and several splinter militant groups have carried out numerous attacks on police and security forces in particular, which has increased in recent years.

PSNI Assistant Chief Constable, Mark Hamilton, mentioned that “this device had the potential to harm anyone in the area and those involved have shown total disregard for human life.” He added that the bomb was found in the grounds of a Londonderry hotel. According to Hamilton, “we are obviously very thankful that this attack was thwarted and that no one was killed or seriously injured.” Quite noticeably, police officers and army bomb experts responded to similar threats in two other parts of Northern Ireland on Friday, though nothing untoward was found. Despite the threats, PSNI is recruiting 100 new officers and Hamilton said it had so far received 2,400 applications for the new jobs. Northern Ireland Policing Board Chair, Anne Connolly, stressed that “intimidation and threat won’t stop people choosing policing as a career.”