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"Do you think people in our community, young people from Carlton Drive, Lisnafin and Ballycolman, are going to join the PSNI whilst this is going on.
"If they do, they are seriously deluding themselves," he told the Chronicle.
"Anti-Agreement Republicans will not sit idly back and allow PSNI members to live in our community whilst this continues. Is this the type of behaviour that constitutes a new beginning to policing?"
The IRSP man, whose home was raided, spoke to the Strabane Chronicle this week. He prefers not to be named.
He said, "After they busted their way in, I opened the bedroom door and saw a red dot on the wall. My wife went downstairs first, when she got to the bottom of the stairs she was told to put her hands on her head and was marched backwards out of the front door. She was then manhandled outside.
"I then came downstairs and they did the same to me. They were roaring and shouting and red dots were trained on my face and on my chest.
"My 14 year old son came running down the stairs and a red light was trained on his chest. He was grabbed and made to the stand in the street."
The man said he and his wife and child were forced to stand barefoot in the street in the rain for some 20 minutes before landrovers arrived.
When those officers arrived and attempted to enter the house, the IRSP man claims that the armed unit also behaved aggressively refusing them access until they were finished.
He said he was given no explanation as to why the armed unit arrived at the house or what they were doing inside the house.
When the other officers arrived he was served with a search warrant under the anti-terrorist legislation to look for transmitters, scanners and receivers.
The man said, "My family were traumatised by this operation and the way in which it happened. In all the times that my house has been raided I have never seen anything like this before."
Mr Gallagher said the aggressive tactics of the search came as no surprise to him, adding that he has noticed a marked increase in surveillance and harassment of anti-Good Friday Agreement republicans since Sinn Fein signed up to policing.
He added, "I would ask Sinn Fein if this is the type of activity that they endorse."
Mr Gallagher said he personally had never been subjected to that type of raid.
When asked to respond to the aggressive nature of the raid the PSNI would only say, "The police did carry out a search of the premises at Summerhill Court as part of an investigation into serious crime. A search warrant was properly served."
A complaint is being lodged with the Police Ombudsman.
