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Poster with details of three serving PSNI officers placed on bus shelter in Derry

This incident comes after personal data on all serving members of the PSNI was mistakenly published last month.

A PSNI statement has since clarified that not all of the people named are employees of the PSNI. Updated details can be found here

THE PSNI IS investigating after a poster with details of three serving officers was placed on a bus shelter in Co Derry last night. 

The incident happened on the Chapel Road in Dungiven. 

PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd said police have contacted those involved to make them aware. 

“[We] recognise the impact this may have on them and their families,” Todd said. 

“The safety and welfare of all our officers and staff remains our priority and additional security and reassurance patrols have already been implemented across Northern Ireland as part of our organisational response,” he said. 

The PSNI has commenced an investigation into the incident. 

“I appeal to anyone with any information relation to this incident to contact police on 101. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who was travelling through Dungiven last night and who has any dash cam footage,” Todd said. 

This incident comes after personal data on all serving members of the PSNI was mistakenly published last month in response to a freedom of information request.

Details of around 10,000 PSNI officers and staff included the surname and first initial of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in.

The PSNI has since confirmed the list is in the hands of dissident republicans, who continue to target officers.

Police officers and their representative organisations have spoken out in recent weeks over concern for their safety.

A number of other data breaches have also since come to light, including the loss of a police officer’s laptop and notebook which contained details of 42 officers and members of staff after the items fell from a moving vehicle last week.

An independently led end-to-end review of the circumstances surrounding the data breaches has been commissioned.

With reporting by Press Association

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    Mute james mcmanus
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    Sep 1st 2023, 2:48 PM

    Any details yet on the Dublin and Monaghan attacks? Still waiting.

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    Mute Trent
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    Sep 1st 2023, 2:56 PM

    @james mcmanus: There’s a beautiful Manorial at the bottom of Tolbot street with the names of the victims ,, i guess you’ll be waiting for any information a little longer

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    Sep 1st 2023, 2:58 PM

    @james mcmanus: Meant to say memorial soz

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    Sep 1st 2023, 2:50 PM

    Those PSNI Officers will need to move now cause the people still stuck in the past Deem so,, F.c.king shocking in these times

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    Sep 2nd 2023, 12:11 AM

    @Trent: they haven’t gone away, hatred still rules in NI.
    And we want to put them in government here?

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    Sep 2nd 2023, 10:21 AM

    @John Mulligan: them? Lol. Go back to sleep

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    Mute Owen Mc
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    Sep 1st 2023, 3:57 PM

    Violence and Intimidation thrive in an unstable State, and if the DUP really care for the P.S.N.I. and the People in N. Ireland, surely it would be better if they gave up this stupid boycott of Stormont and get back around the Government Table, and this would let these People who intimidate and live in the past, see that Politics does work and the vast majority of the Population in N. Ireland want to move on.

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    Sep 1st 2023, 6:14 PM

    @Owen Mc: The DUP move on??? They are still stuck in the 1600s

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    Sep 1st 2023, 3:37 PM

    Just get on with work. Don’t give in to intimidation. That’s how they win. Stand tall, stand proud. Never easy being in the police, but brave it out.

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    Sep 1st 2023, 3:47 PM

    @John Costello: Are you half Baked on your way to Electric Picnic if so turn your phone off mate

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    Sep 2nd 2023, 10:22 AM

    Should level it all and make a carpark.
    NI is rotten to the core

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