Some police officers in Northern Ireland opposed to power sharing and the Belfast Agreement are intent on undermining the process, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams claimed today.
As Sinn Féin Assembly member Francie Brolly continued to be questioned by detectives investigating an IRA triple car bomb attack which killed nine people in Claudy, Co Derry in 1972, Mr Adams claimed political policing was being allowed to go unchecked in Northern Ireland.
He also said the remaining challenge for the British government was to make policing more accountable by transferring policing and justice powers from Westminster to a new devolved administration at Stormont.
As he confirmed more republicans in west Belfast had been told their lives were in danger following the discovery of a security forces dossier containing their personal details in loyalist hands, Mr Adams said: "Hugh Orde said in early 2003 that there are some in the PSNI who want him to fail.
"I believe that there are still securocrats who want the Agreement, power-sharing and negotiations for a new beginning to policing, to fail.
"The evidence of the last three years shows that many of them are still in the PSNI," he added.
Mr Brolly was among three men and a woman arrested as part of a new investigation into the triple car bomb attack in the Co Derry village.
Mr Brolly's home in Dungiven was raided by police yesterday. Freelance sports journalist Seamus Mullan was also held.
A 58-year-old woman from Dungannon in Co Tyrone and a 50-year-old man in Portglenone, Co Antrim were being questioned as well.
The arrests were part of a fresh police investigation launched three years ago into allegations that a Catholic priest, Fr James Chesney, was involved in the attack.
No-one has ever been charged in connection with the bombings and, even if a suspect was, under controversial new legislation he or she could avoid jail by qualifying for release under a special licence.