Getting tough on paramilitaries – will new organised crime campaign be the start? #BBCNolan

Dec 05, 2016, 09:41 AM

There were big calls last week for the police to get tougher on paramilitaries. It followed the revelation at the Policing Board that the PSNI had spent £1.6million in five months policing a UDA feud in the Castlemara estate in Carrick and senior officers called for mediation to ease tensions. The DUP MP for the area, Sammy Wilson, said that 'softly softy' approach has to stop. Later today Justice Minister Claire Sugden will launch an 'End The Harm' campaign to warn people that buying counterfeit goods is unwittingly funding organised crime - including those with links to paramilitaries. There is of course a wider Action Plan for Tackling Paramilitary Activity, Criminality, and Organised Crime that was launched in July. Stephen talks to commentator Seamus Close and loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson.