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  2. Ulster Special Constabulary - Wikipedia

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    Ulster Special Constabulary memorial. The Ulster Special Constabulary (USC; commonly called the "B-Specials" or "B Men") was a quasi-military [1] reserve special constable police force in what would later become Northern Ireland. It was set up in October 1920, shortly before the partition of Ireland.

  3. Special Patrol Group (RUC) - Wikipedia

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    The Special Patrol Group (SPG) of the Royal Ulster Constabulary was a tactical reserve of 310 officers which had the role: "to provide support to divisional policing both uniform and CID, to police interface areas at times of civil unrest, and to do so in a disciplined way.

  4. Clonoe ambush - Wikipedia

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    The Clonoe Ambush was a military action between the British Army and the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) that occurred during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.On 16 February 1992, an IRA unit which had attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) security base in the village of Coalisland in County Tyrone, was ambushed shortly afterwards by the Special Air Service (SAS) in the grounds ...

  5. Special Constabulary - Wikipedia

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    The Special Constabulary is the part-time volunteer section of statutory police forces in the United Kingdom and some Crown dependencies. Its officers are known as special constables. Every United Kingdom territorial police force has a special constabulary except the Police Service of Northern Ireland, which has a Reserve constituted on ...

  6. Category:Ulster Special Constabulary officers - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Ulster Special Constabulary officers" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  7. Royal Ulster Constabulary - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) [n 1] was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) [ 2 ] following the partition of Ireland .

  8. Alexander Robinson - Wikipedia

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    Alexander "Buck Alec" Robinson (c. 1901–1995) was a boxer, Ulster loyalist paramilitary and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC) reservist. Robinson gained notoriety in Northern Ireland for streetfighting, [1] [2] robbery [3] and for owning a pet lion. His contemporaries included James "Stormy" Wetherall and Patrick "Silver" McKee. [3]

  9. Category:Officers in Northern Irish police forces - Wikipedia

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    Royal Ulster Constabulary officers (2 C, 37 P) U. Ulster Special Constabulary officers (13 P) This page was last edited on 6 August 2022, at 23:19 (UTC). Text ...