{"id":6313,"date":"2026-06-21T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/cops-called-to-man-with-knife-reports-on-northern-ireland-beach-find-him-preparing-bbq\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:40:09","slug":"cops-called-to-man-with-knife-reports-on-northern-ireland-beach-find-him-preparing-bbq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/cops-called-to-man-with-knife-reports-on-northern-ireland-beach-find-him-preparing-bbq\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops called to &#8216;man with knife&#8217; reports on Northern Ireland beach find him preparing BBQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<h2 class=\"LeadText_lead-text__wd_PA __className_1cf165\" data-testid=\"leadtext\">Officers were sent to the scene in Portstewart Strand but, following a search of a van, concluded the reasons behind the knife sightings were much less sinister than initially believed<\/h2>\n<div class=\"Byline_byline-container__K_Owl\" data-testid=\"byline\"><span class=\"Byline_byline-content-wrapper__Imque\" data-testid=\"byline-content\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"Byline_author-badge-date-wrapper__Q7jj1\">\n<p><span class=\"\" data-testid=\"byline-publishedDate\"><\/span><span class=\"ArticleTimestamp_updated-date__7qD4Q ArticleTimestamp_updated-date-with-published__iFKpF\" data-testid=\"byline-updatedDate\">Updated <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX ImageEmbed_image-lead__Ti3qQ\" data-testid=\"leadimage\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"37328228\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Portstewart Strand, County Londonderry\" loading=\"eager\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 508px, (max-width: 615px) 615px, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37328228.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200f\/0_Aerial-View-of-Portstewart-County-Derry-Londonderry-Northern-Ireland.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37328228.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s508\/0_Aerial-View-of-Portstewart-County-Derry-Londonderry-Northern-Ireland.jpg 508w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37328228.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_Aerial-View-of-Portstewart-County-Derry-Londonderry-Northern-Ireland.jpg 615w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37328228.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200f\/0_Aerial-View-of-Portstewart-County-Derry-Londonderry-Northern-Ireland.jpg 1200w\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"Portstewart Strand, County Londonderry\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Portstewart Strand, County Londonderry<cite aria-label=\"Image: Getty Images\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-credit__wlx1W\" data-testid=\"caption-credit\">(Image: Getty Images)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Officers were called to a beach in Northern Ireland after reports of a man believed to have a <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"http:\/\/Portstewart%20Strand,%20County%20Londonderry\" rel=\"nofollow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">knife<\/a> &#8211; but the reasons behind the blade sightings were not as sinister as initially believed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police received a report of a number of men, with one of them believed to have a knife, in the Portstewart Strand area on the north coast of Northern Ireland on Sunday afternoon (June 21).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Officers attended the scene and spoke with the group in question before carrying out a search of their van.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They then concluded that the knife had actually been used only to prepare a barbecue at the beach, with no danger posed to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The blade was seized for disposal, however.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A statement from the <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/psni\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Police Service of Northern Ireland<\/a> read: &#8220;Officers were immediately dispatched to the scene where they spoke with the men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;A subsequent search of the men\u2019s van established that they had been preparing barbeque at the beach and the knife was being used for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;No criminal offences were noted, however the knife was removed for disposal. No further police action was taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">According to NI Direct, it&#8217;s an offence to carry a knife or an offensive weapon in a public place &#8220;without good reason&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Some &#8220;good reason&#8221; examples listed on gov.uk include a knife being used for work, for religious reasons or as part of any national costume.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/cops-called-man-knife-reports-37328134\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers were sent to the scene in Portstewart Strand but, following a search of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0_Aerial-View-of-Portstewart-County-Derry-Londonderry-Northern-Ireland.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}