Police Service of Northern Ireland

Police in Northern Ireland are treating the shooting of an off-duty police officer as “terrorist-related”, and their primary line of inquiry is the New IRA.

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Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell, who has been named as the off-duty police officer injured in a shooting at a sports complex in the Killyclogher Road area of Omagh, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Issue date: Thursday February 23, 2023.

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Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell was targeted in the shooting (Images: PA / Handout)

Shooting of off-duty detective now considered ‘terrorist-related’

(Composite: Mark Hall/JPI Media)

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