Threats issued against Community Safety Wardens in Derry have been called on to be “lifted straight away.”
The wardens are employed by Derry City Council in an effort to reduce anti-social activity in high areas of risk.
Sinn Fein Cllr Paul Fleming said the threat, delivered through a community worker, was a “sinister development” and the latest in a long line of threats issued against various groups and individuals in the city and district.
Adding the Community Safety Warden scheme had been “very successful,” said: ““The group behind these threats need to lift them immediately and the people who give them political cover need to explain the rationale behind them.”
Cllr Fleming concluded: “It is unacceptable that the community safety wardens cannot get on to providing the service that they were designed to do and that the entire community is being held under threat by an minority unrepresentative grouping.”