Put brake on RUC reforms, urges Dodds

The brakes should be applied on the Government’s police reforms in the light of criticism of them by a senior RUC officer, an anti-Good Friday Agreement unionist claimed today.

Democratic Unionist MLA Nigel Dodds called on Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid to halt the reform package after Belfast Special Branch chief Bill Lowry claimed the force was ‘‘being robbed of its soul’’.