Democratic Unionist Assembly member, Ian Paisley Junior, has said a number of politicians in the North have been warned that dissident Republican paramilitaries are planning to carry out either a political assassination or a bomb attack.
The acting Chief Constable Colin Cramphorn said he was unable to comment on whether or not politicians had been warned.
However, speaking at a Policing Board meeting in Belfast, he said that dissident republican groups were planning to kill new recruits to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Last month one of the force's new members escaped major injury after a bomb exploded under his car outside his home in Ballymena, County Antrim.
A spokesman for the Ulster Unionist Party said its leader David Trimble, and some of its current and former MPs, were among those had been warned. He said such threats were received on a regular basis.
