Northumbria Police have confirmed that some of their officers met with convicted PIRA terrorist Jim Tout

McCarthy (CRJ Belfast). Jim McCarthy is one of the PIRA terrorists who kidnapped (and held at gunpoint) the former British Agent Martin McGartland, read here, http://www.scribd.com/doc/112236333/Martin-McGartland-was-kidnappedby-PIRA-terrorists-who-are-being-protected-to-this-very-day-by-British-Stateand-MI5 Martin McGartland made a Freedom of Information request. The following is Northumbria Polices reply; 17 May 2013 Attachment FOI Complaint Rights.doc 29K Download View as HTML Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act') Thank you for your e mail dated 25 April 2013 in which you made a request for access to certain information which may be held by Northumbria Police. As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions. You asked: In the event that NP and or its staff met with CRJ in N. Ireland I would like NP to deal with my FOI request as follows; Please supply me with all recorded information you hold concerning visit/s by NP and or its staff to N. Ireland, those connected to all contact and meetings between above and Community Restorative Justice (CRJ) and its staff, same http://www.flickr.com/photos/crji/859129... As well as the above I am also requesting all recorded information you hold concerning following;

1. How did such a meeting, visit between NP and CRJ come about and for what purpose. 2. What was the cost of the visit to NP and or taxpayer. As well as total cost please also supply a breakdown of the total costs that relate N. Ireland trip. 3. Please supply date/s NP and or its staff travelled to N.I regards above. Please also supply details of who NP staff met and also which areas they visited and why.

4. Have any CRJ staff met with any of NP's command team. If so, please supply name/s of officers and also supply details, including reason/s for such meeting/s and or contact. 5. How many days did NP staff stay in N.I and how was this funded. Who funded their accommodation and other costs. Please also supply a full breakdown of all amounts spent as well as the total costs to taxpayer for same. 6. Please also supply all recorded information you hold concerning any involvement by Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in above, i.e was contact between CRJ and NP arranged and or setup by PSNI and or its staff. If so, why and for what reason. In response: We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention. Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Sunderland Area Command of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police. I have today decided to disclose the located information to you as follows. I can advise that no information is held regarding contact and visits to CRJ by Northumbria Police. This visit was arranged by PSNI and advised the visiting officers only during their visit.

1. Police officers from Sunderland Area Command and officers from Police Service of Northern Ireland took part in an exchange in order to compare how neighbourhood policing and community cohesion issues are managed. Officers from Sunderland hosted an Inspector and a sergeant from PSNI for two days. The officers followed a programme locally where they met with local community leaders and partners. An inspector and two sergeants from Sunderland then visited Police Service of Northern Ireland . They, in turn followed a programme arranged by Police Service of Northern Ireland. The photograph in question was taken at a Community & Restorative Justice event of which the persons featured in the photograph are a part. Community Base Restorative Justice Schemes are designed to provide restorative solutions to problems of neighbour disputes and low-level criminality. Community Restorative Justice schemes have been established in Northern Ireland for some time. They were set up as a non-violent alternative to the practices of punishment violence as practised by the different paramilitary groups in their respective communities. The Northern Ireland Office has a protocol in place in respect of the relationship of the PSNI and the Restorative Justice Schemes 2. PSNI bore the costs of the trip to Northumbria. Northumbria Officers supported the visit in duty time with some adjustments to their shift and hosted the visitors socially in their own time. Northumbria bore the costs of the trip to PSNI. The Inspector and one sergeant visited in their own time and one sergeant was granted the facility to visit in duty time. Total Cost of visit to PSNI = 1,121.32 of which: Travel & Accommodation 896.92 Expenses Food etc 224.40 3. The dates of the Northumbria Police visit to PSNI were 21st March 2013 to 24th March 2013.

The officers were involved as part of the exchange visit where they met with people from diverse communities with which their Northern Ireland Counterparts work on a daily basis to build effective community relations. They met PSNI officers & policing teams: ACC Kerr PSNI, Superintendent Irvine District Commander. The areas visited were Dunmarry and Lisburn. These are the areas policed by the PSNI participants. The team in question had received recognition within PSNI for their neighbourhood policing model. They also visited Firearms & Public Order Training. The team were scheduled to observe the policing of public protests which were cancelled by the organisers due to adverse weather conditions. 4. No Command Team member participated in this visit. CRJ staff did not visit Northumbria. PSNI officers only visited Northumbria. 5. This is answered in questions 2 and 3 above. 6. There is no recorded information held by Northumbria Police concerning the involvement of PSNI. The Northumbria officers spent an hour and a half with the staff from CRJI together with a Sergeant from the local community policing team. The meeting took place at the CRJI office in Belfast, arranged by PSNI as part of the exchange visit. The reason for the visit as outlined above was to learn about approaches to neighbourhood policing and community cohesion. You may be interested to know that Northumbria Police routinely publish information via the Disclosure Log. The aim of the Disclosure Log is to promote openness and transparency by voluntarily placing information into the public arena. The Disclosure Log contains copies of some of the information that has been disclosed by Northumbria Police in response to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Whilst it is not possible to publish all responses we will endeavour to publish those where we feel that the information disclosed is in the public interest. The Disclosure Log will be updated once responses have been sent to the requester.

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Martin McGartland left an annotation (19 May 2013) Northumbria Police meet Jim 'Tout' McCarthy the convicted PIRA terrorist and PIRA kidnapper of former British Agent Martin McGartland. You could not make it up; http://www.scribd.com/doc/112236333/Mart... "Former Special Branch agent Martin McGartland believes that two members of the IRA's internal security unit were recruited as police informers after being secretly observed as they abducted him in August 1991." http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NtCYswQkI4

Re: CRJ Belfast: The Burning BushOnline article: "IRA members accused of cleaning-up a serious crime scene Members of the IRA have been accused of cleaning-up the scene of a rape in order to remove all forensic evidence that would link the perpetrators to the crime. The Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centre has made the allegation following the attack upon a young woman. It was the gang rape of a young woman, says the centres codirector, Eileen Calder. The perpetrators' families were as-sociated with the Provisional IRA and CRJ (Community Restorative Justice). Known IRA men were seen cleaning up the scene. These people did their utmost to prevent this young woman reporting the crime to police. Crown counsel told the victim he wouldnt be willing to raise the actions of the IRA and CRJ unless she made arrangements to leave the country afterwards. http://www.ivanfoster.net/pdf/Dec0502.pdf