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The Headquarters Mobile Support Unit (HMSU) was a uniformed elite police tactical unit established by the RUC, intended to be their equivalent of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS). Members of the HMSU were enrolled into RUC Special Branch and were trained by the SAS to on how to confront Irish Republican Army (IRA) members and other ...
The first clause of the act covered the name of the police force. The Patten Report originally suggested naming the force the "Northern Ireland Police Service". The government of the United Kingdom adapted the proposal and put forward for the force to be named "Police Service of Northern Ireland" instead as they disliked the acronym of NIPS. [2]
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 .
The PRONI website supports a number of free online resources including PRONI electronic catalogue; a searchable wills database which contains details of testamentary papers, 1858–1965; valuation records, 1864–1933; historic Ordnance Survey maps, 1832-1996; fully indexed and searchable Ulster Covenant signatories of 1912;
The board is not the first police oversight body in the history of Northern Ireland. It was established on 4 November 2001 pursuant to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 , as the direct successor of the Police Authority for Northern Ireland , which oversaw the Royal Ulster Constabulary .
Dangerous side effects from the injectable canine drug Librela — used to treat osteoarthritis joint pain — have been linked to seizures, lameness and loss of muscle control, the FDA warned.
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.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles George Wickham, KCMG, KBE, DSO (11 September 1879 - 20 July 1971) [1] was a British Army officer, commander of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (1922–1945) and adviser to British police in various colonies of the Empire.