Readers' Blog: North’s police operated beyond control

The reaction to the incendiary remarks of the Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley who said that the killings by the British army and police during the Troubles were “not crimes” is extraordinarily naive. In 1999 the disbandment of the RUC, the B Specials and the UDR, along with most of the 175 changes recommended in the Patten Report on policing which brought about the new PSNI, were implemented.

Readers' Blog: North’s police operated beyond control
Mon, 11 Mar, 2019 - 00:00

The reaction to the incendiary remarks of the Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley who said that the killings by the British army and police during the Troubles were “not crimes” is extraordinarily naive.

In 1999 the disbandment of the RUC, the B Specials and the UDR, along with most of the 175 changes recommended in the Patten Report on policing which brought about the new PSNI, were implemented.

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