Prison officers meeting with Gary Griffith

Prison officers have been able to secure a meeting with Gary Griffith, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on national security issues, after staging a silent protest outside the office of the Prime Minister in St Clair this morning.
They are calling on the Government to do more to protect officers both on and off duty.
Within the last few months a number of prisons officers have been attacked and some killed in incident police suspect are directly related to their jobs.
After the shooting death of an officer last Saturday, prison officers say the time has come for the highest offices in the land to get involved in protecting them.