According to the BBC, police officers came in for multiple attacks in west Belfast on Tuesday night. Landrovers had stones thrown at them at about 10:50 pm in the Springfield Road area, while police were attacked with a petrol bomb, bricks and bottles at… more »

The PSNI have removed LVF flags from an estate in Holywood, Co. Down. Officers recovered paramilitary flags from a gang of men in the Loughview area at about 10PM on Friday night (although details were only released last night). 5 men were questioned… more »

Sinn Fein today continued their "Outside the tent pissing in" policy to policing as spokesman Gerry Kelly used the launch of a new, supposedly safer, plastic bullet as an opportunity to have a dig at the SDLP under the headline "SDLP policing failures ex… more »

The BBC reports that the number of troops in Northern Ireland is to fall further next August. John Reid today confirmed that the King's Own Scottish Borderers, currently based at Lisanelly Barracks in Omagh, due to end their tour in August 2006, will not… more »

This is how the Daily Ireland, that bastion of impartial reporting, chose to describe a group of people who attacked marchers with missiles at the Ardoyne shops on Friday night. The followers of the march who were attacked included women and children.… more »

As reported on Newsline today, a report by the Office of the Oversight Commissioner on police reform has concluded that the Patten changes are working. There are twice as many Catholic recruits in the police service as there were in 1999 (now 18%)… more »