The minute we go into that area in a way that looks like checkpoints, or supporting other agencies to staff checkpoints, we become a target for those dissident Republicans.

Simon Byrne

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We have less than 7,000 officers here these days, we simply don't have enough people, even with a recent budget uplift, to cope with some of the Brexit challenges, to actually police that.

The reality of using technology or some form of hard check point in the border area is simply just not practical. There are over 300 crossings that we'd have to police on a daily basis to make that effective.