The warning comes just days before President Joe Biden is due to visit Belfast to mark 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement.
Police have blamed the New IRA for the attack.Assistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton said the force has received"strong" intelligence that dissidents are planning to launch terror attacks against officers over the bank holiday weekend."It's going to be a really significant weekend for the PSNI," ACC Singleton told a press conference in Belfast.
"So going into our operation that's something that is very clearly right at the forefront of my mind, the minds of the commanders that will be delivering that and of course our officers as well." Easter Monday is the day dissident republicans traditionally mark the anniversary of the Easter Rising rebellion against British rule in 1916, with a parade set to take place in Londonderry.The terror threat level in Northern Ireland has been raised
"We don't have to go too far back, sadly, to see precisely that kind of scenario playing out in Derry/Londonderry in the past.
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