Thursday, June 7, 2007

And Staying on the Subject of the Police.......

A Northern Ireland police station which was targeted by burglars had been left with its windows open and its alarm switched off, it has emerged. The station in Ballynahinch, County Down, was broken into last month. Assistant Chief Constable Duncan McCausland told the Policing Board officers went on patrol and forgot to lock up properly.

Northern Ireland Assembly member Alex Maskey wondered if perhaps "the 20 unopened bottles of milk" on the doorstep had tipped off the burglars"!