Loyalists With ‘Strong Links’ to New IRA Arrested Over Police Officer Shooting, NI Police Board Told

The arrests were made in the last week following the attempted murder of senior Northern Ireland detective John Caldwell

Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell pictured in Belfast on Nov. 17, 2020. Caldwell has been named as the off-duty police officer injured in a Feb. 22, 2023 shooting at a sports complex in the Killyclogher Road area of Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. PA Media

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.