Roslea Informers' Charter Condemned

Residents in the Roslea area of County Fermanagh received a questionnaire on Thursday morning, 30th April, asking for recipients to inform on who they have seen using a public telephone box in the village from the 2nd through to the 12th April.

Residents in the Roslea area of County Fermanagh received a questionnaire on Thursday morning, 30th April, asking for recipients to inform on who they have seen using a public telephone box in the village from the 2nd through to the 12th April. Previously the RUC had sent a similar questionnaire to residents of Roslea asking for information regarding activity in the Rellan Road area following a military operation against British Crown Forces in the area.

This latest questionnaire asked recipients to identify anyone seen in the phone box by name; age; gender; height; hair colour and a number of other characteristics. They were also asked why they remembered this, and whether they had access to CCTV footage or knew of anyone else who may have access to CCTV footage. The last of the seven questions provided space to add any further intelligence about Republican activity in the Fermanagh area.

Contact numbers for Strand Road Barracks in Derry and Enniskillen Barracks were included.

A spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin described the survey as an “informers' charter”:

“No-one should respond to this disgraceful survey. Despite what Seán Lynch and his cohorts would have people believe, providing information to the enemy about Republican activity is informing. The people of Roslea made it clear to McGuinness what they think of him and his band of traitors. The writing was, quite literally, on the wall.”

ENDS