Loyalists with “strong links” to the New IRA have been arrested over the shooting of a senior detective, Northern Ireland’s Policing Board has been told.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said on Thursday it was still treating the attempted murder of Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell as a dissident republican terror attack.
Caldwell was shot several times in Co. Tyrone last week and is still critically ill in hospital.
The off-duty police officer had just finished coaching a youth football team when he was targeted in the car park of the Omagh sports complex.
Police have made a number of arrests and three men remain in custody….