Policing in Northern Ireland: a service for all

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This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, providing an account and analysis of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of 'the troubles' in the s to the early s, through the uneasy peace that followed the paramilitary ceasefires (), and then its transformation into the Police Service of Northern Ireland following the 4/5(1).

This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, providing an account and analysis of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of 'the troubles' in the s to the early s, through the uneasy peace that followed the paramilitary ceasefires (), and then its transformation into the Police Service of Northern Ireland following the Author: Aogan Mulcahy.

This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, providing an account and analysis of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of 'the troubles' in the s to the early s, through the uneasy peace that followed the paramilitary ceasefires (), and then its transformation into the Police Service of Northern Ireland following the Cited by: The Northern Ireland Policing Board was created to ensure the accountability of the new Police Service of Northern Ireland.

This book graphically sets out how this responsibility was consistently discharged - against a background of, at times, severe public and political. Leaders of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, the body charged with making recommendations for reforming the RUC, wanted all of Northern Ireland’s people to see themselves and their communities reflected in the police logic behind this linkage, according to the Commission’s official report, was that “if all communities see the police as their police.

The book opens with an outline of the political and historic context shedding light on how policing in NI came to be contentious, and, was so important to the wider peace process that the parties side stepped the issue and agreed to an Independent Commission on Policing in NI (Patten Commission) to review and make recommendations for police reform.

Although there is a considerable literature on policing in Northern Ireland, this is the first book which focuses on the dynamics of the police legitimation process. It explores in a highly readable form how the police—the old RUC and subsequently the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)—sought to gain and maintain the support of.

The Crowned Harp provides a detailed analysis of policing in Northern Ireland. Tracing its history fromEllison and Smyth portray the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) as an organisation burdened by its past as a colonial police force.

They analyse its perceived close relationship with unionism and why, for many nationalists, the RUC embodied the problem of the legitimacy of Northern. contents 1 the task of the independent commission on policing 2 the independent commission on policing for northern ireland 3 perceptions of the police: main findings 4 human rights 5 accountability i: the present position 6 accountability ii: a new beginning 7 policing with the community 8 policing in a peaceful society   About the Speech: Policing in Northern Ireland: Delivering the New Beginning?, a new book by Desmond Rea and Robin Masefield, will be launched by the Minister for.

This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, providing an account and analysis of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of ‘the troubles’ in the. ISBN: X OCLC Number: Description: xiii, pages ; 24 cm: Contents: Foreword --Abbreviations --Introduction Policing in its Historical and Political Context A New Beginning to Policing in Northern Ireland --The Report of the Independent Commission On Policing for Northern Ireland From Publication of the Independent Commission's Report to the.

It took Northern Ireland’s political institutions a long time to establish after the Belfast Agreement. During this period the policing change process was operating in earnest.

Policing Northern Ireland by Aogan Mulcahy,available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. This timely and controversial book shows how crime, and the response of the authorities to it, became central to the peace process in Northern Ireland.

At times, paramilitary activity threatened to destabilize the peace in Northern Ireland afterbut crime was central to maintaining capacity should the groups return to war. Over time, the reduction of crime was central to these groups.

Policing for Peace in Northern Ireland: Change, Conflict, and Community Confidence. Author: Joanne Murphy now the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), at all levels of the organization. Joanne Murphy has written an excellent book describing how the change process within the organization unfolded, within the context of intense.

It considers the recommendations of the Independent Commission on Policing (ICP), which proposed a number of changes to policing structures and arrangements in Northern Ireland, and it assesses. Today, thanks to large-scale reforms, Northern Ireland is a substantially different place. Striking among the changes, the Army has ceased active operations in the region.

And the RUC was nominally terminated and substantially altered. In its place now operates a renamed and reformed Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI; Irish: Seirbhís Póilíneachta Thuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Polis Service o Norlin Airlan) is the police force that serves Northern is the successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary after it was reformed and renamed in on the recommendation of the Patten Report.

Although the majority of PSNI officers are Ulster Protestants Preceding agency: Royal Ulster Constabulary. This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, providing an account and analysis of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of 'the troubles' in the s to the early s, through the uneasy peace that followed the paramilitary ceasefires (), and then its transformation into the Police Service of Northern Ireland following the Brand: Taylor And Francis.

This chapter is taken from the book: THE CROWNED HARP Policing Northern Ireland by Graham Ellison and Jim Smyth () ISBN (Paperback) pp £ Cover photograph: Joanne O'Brien/Format.

Orders to local bookshops or: Pluto Press Archway Road London N6 5AA Tel: Fax: Email: [email protected] Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, headed by Lord Patten, concluded in its report: ‘A new beginning for democratic accountability is key to a new beginning for policing and to involving the community as a whole in the delivery of policing.

We recommend that an entirely new Policing Board be created ’ This book is about the delivery of that new beginning. 1. Politics, policing and crime as an issue in Northern Ireland after the peace process 2. The republican movement: politics, crime and transition 3.

Loyalist paramilitaries: violence, crime and legitimacy 4. 'Ordinary decent' organised and volume crime 5. From RUC to PSNI. Police reform and modernisation 6.

Policing serious and volume crime 7.