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Cross-border deal to close net on fleeing sex offenders

A new police deal on sharing intelligence on sex offenders should help stop them using the border to evade the law, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said yesterday.

He was commenting after a 90-minute meeting with Northern Ireland security minister Paul Goggins at Hillsborough.

The two ministers welcomed the agreement, signed by the Garda and the PSNI, on sharing personal data on the investigation of sexual offences and the monitoring of sex offenders.

As the meeting was under way, police on both sides of the border were hunting a dangerous sex offender on the run.

Officers last night warned the public not to approach Ernest George Finlay (53), from Aughnacloy, Co Tyrone, a convicted sex offender who has disappeared after failing to meet post-custody conditions.

More story at-http://www.irishexaminer.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=77691-qqqx=1.asp

By Tom Brady Security Editor

ŠIndependent.ie

 
 

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