Categories: Law & Order, PSNI
Patten to be rolled out across UK
by Michael Shilliday on 07 Feb 2008 at 14:38. Categories: News, United Kingdom, England, Wales, PSNI, Law & Order, Politics, History
The Patten Commission was not a pleasant experience for Unionists. The abandonment of the historic name and symbols of the RUC GC was needless, insensitive, and damaging to Unionist confidence in the political process of the time. While this was not th… more »
Loyalists Supply Republican Guns
I'm loathed to reference a story from the Irish News when it's not clear for how long it will remain freely available online [edit: it's gone], but this one's quite revealing. I earlier mentioned that the cowards of the Real IRA shot two off-duty police… more »
RIRA Aim For Army on NI Streets
The republican splinter-group the Real IRA has an objective to get soldiers re-deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland.
With more attacks on the RUC/PSNI we believe we can reach the stage where British soldiers are brought back onto the streets to… more »
More Police Officers Drink Driving
Over Christmas the PSNI caught 600 people drink-driving. 2 of those were off-duty PSNI officers.
Unlike Officer Geraldine Donnelly , who was caught before new policy came into effect, these 2 officers "if prosecuted", are likely to lose their jobs. I… more »
Fundamental Failure to Understand Unionists
by beano on 10 Jan 2008 at 11:49. Categories: Local Wackos, Republicans, Law & Order, Devolved Government
Actually, Brian Feeney's fundamental failure might be understanding anything, but I was feeling charitable when I wrote that title. The Irish News is generally the best of a bad bunch when it comes to local news papers, which makes the fact that they giv… more »
Who Will Police the Police-Police?
Slugger today highlighted a story from Friday when it was reported that a Resident Magistrate delivered a damning verdict on an investigation by the Police Ombudsman's office bringing into question the integrity of the body in charge of investigating com… more »
Local Businessman Fears For Family After Threats
I was really saddened to find out that the owner of a carwash/valet service near Stormont had his business attacked, with racist/xenophobic slogans smeared on the tarmac outside, warning he had 3 days to "get out".
I've a message for whoever did this.… more »
On The Need for Policing
Last night in the markets area in Belfast a group of "about 20" protestors (I presume that's including the kids) disrupted a DPP meeting in south Belfast designed to give people there a voice and a chance to raise issues with and ask qustions of the poli… more »
100,000 More Parking Tickets Given
12 months ago NCP (a private company) took over responsibility for parking enforcement from the PSNI. In the PSNI's last 12 months in charge they handed out 61,488 parking tickets compared to 163,500 tickets handed out in Northern Ireland by NCP in their… more »
In the Absence of Respect, Fear Will Do
A woman who uses a mobility scooter to get around informed a meeting last night that two secondary school pupils had lit a banger and thrown it at the basket of her scooter as she was driving it through the park, with the aim of having it explode in the… more »