Sinn Fein said its 'support for the Prison Service and the PSNI is consistent'
Sinn Féin has been criticised by other Stormont parties for not signing a joint statement in response to the removal of Prison Service recruitment posters.
Read more:DUP's Edwin Poots calls for ex-councillor's 'lenient' sentence for child sex offences to be appealedThe joint statement was released by DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long, UUP leader Doug Beattie and SDLP leader Colum Eastwood. He said: "The destruction of Prison Service posters in Derry, or political posters on bonfires, is absolutely wrong.Sinn Féin said its "support for the Prison Service and the PSNI is consistent".
Each week, our Political Reporter Brendan Hughes pulls together some of the biggest and most important matters from Belfast and Northern Ireland that we think you’d be interested in reading. Alliance MLA Andrew Muir said it was "extremely disappointing" that Sinn Féin did not sign the joint statement and urged the party to provide "clarity".
The Upper Bann MLA said he believed it would have a "cooling effect" on encouraging people from republican backgrounds to join the police and Prison Service.
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