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Station badge of the "Irish Constabulary" (on display at the Garda Museum) Badge of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Tack badge from the RIC Mounted Division. The first organised police forces in Ireland came about through Dublin Police Act 1786, which was a slightly modified version of the failed London and Westminster Police Bill 1785 drafted by John Reeves at the request of Home Secretary Lord ...
This is a description of law enforcement in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.Before the Republic (then called the Irish Free State) left the union in 1922, one police force — the Royal Irish Constabulary — policed almost the whole island (aside from Dublin, where the Dublin Metropolitan Police were the main force; Belfast, where the Belfast Borough Police were the main force ...
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The Royal Irish Constabulary began recruiting special constables in the 1920s, largely as a reaction to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). In the south and west of Ireland were the Black and Tans, officially the Royal Irish Constabulary Special Reserve, [51] [52] and the Auxiliary Division.
Royal Ulster Constabulary badge. The Royal Ulster Constabulary had been responsible for law enforcement in Northern Ireland since being split from the all-Ireland Royal Irish Constabulary before the partition of Ireland. During The Troubles, they had been accused by nationalists of having a unionist bias against the nationalist minority. [4]
Royal Irish Constabulary officers (1 C, 37 P) Pages in category "Royal Irish Constabulary" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
Gilbert Norman Potter (10 July 1878 – 27 April 1921) was a District Inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary. He was born in Dromahair, County Leitrim, a son of Rev. Joseph Potter, Church of Ireland Rector of Drumlease Parish, and Mrs. Jane Potter. [3] He was stationed at Cahir, County Tipperary, during the Irish War of Independence. [4]
Further men were recruited from the Royal Irish Constabulary, London's Metropolitan Police and from the military presence in Shanghai itself, while a structure for recruitment of Britons in the United Kingdom eventually came about through the Shanghai Municipal Council's London agents, John Pook & Co. Once formalised, a steady stream of young ...