Sinn Féin want cops to spy on MI5 - TUV

The document circulated by the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) cites a statement by Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness to the Sinn Fin Ard Fheis three years ago when he said he wanted to use the police to spy on other intelligence agencies.

The prominent Londonderry Sinn Fin man is quoted as stating: "We have to boss policing. We are the bosses. We are the people with the political authority...I'll tell you what I want the PSNI to do. I want the police to watch MI5, to spy on MI5 and to arrest MI5 when they break the law."

The "fact sheet" also cites an address by the current Foyle MLA Martina Anderson to a Sinn Fin Ard Fheis in 2006 in which she said policing and justice was central to ending British rule.

She said: "Comrades, our approach to policing, like our approach to every other aspect of struggle must be about ending British rule in our country and asserting our republican agenda.

"It is central to ending British rule. In fact, I can't understand how British rule can be ended if we give up and pull away from negotiations on policing and justice."

The Jim Allister-inspired document states: "As some Unionists prepare to gift Sinn Fin their key strategic demand of ending British control of policing and justice, we set out below various telling utterances by the IRA/Sinn Fin leadership on this vital subject. No Unionist should be facilitating their all-Ireland agenda."