Specialist PSNI officer to target loan sharks

Available for over a year

The PSNI's paramilitary crime task force is to receive funding for a specialist officer to crack down on illegal loan sharks. The money is part of a £5.5m UK grant to fight unlawful money lending. So how bad is the problem in Northern Ireland? That's the question Declan Lawn put to Chris Cupples from Christians Against Poverty, a group that works with the victims of illegal lenders.