Dunmurry: Police station bomb 'does make you more fearful'

A bomb at a police station has heightened security fears for civilians who work for the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), their union representative has said. Tracey Godfrey, who has worked for the police for 42 years, said the explosion at Dunmurry PSNI Station triggered memories of working through the Troubles. She said it was a civilian contractor, not a police officer, who raised the alarm when the bomb was left at the station inside a hijacked car on Saturday night. However, she said police officers, civilians and contractors would just "have to be vigilant and carry on". "My heart just sank... especially whenever I saw the footage of the car exploding," she told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme. "It just takes me back to working through the Troubles. It does trigger those memories for you and it does make you more fearful." In addition to her civilian staff role, Godfrey also represents the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (Nipsa) union as its departmental secretary for the PSNI. She said the Dunmurry bomb was "an attack on the whole community". "And please don't forget that police and police staff, our contractors, are part of that community as well,"