Northern Ireland - new material (41)
01 May 2001
Policing in a rough neighbourhood: the reform of the RUC, K Maguire. Police Journal vol 73 no 4, 2000, pp341?353.
Looks at the "problem" of policing ethnically divided societies. Provides an overview of the record of the RUC since partition and reviews the main critiques of the RUC from the perspectives of Republicans, Loyalists and civil libertarians. Finally, it examines the peace settlement based on the Good Friday agreement and its implications for the future of policing in Northern Ireland and looks at the proposals of the Patten Report for reform of RUC.
Report to the government of the United Kingdom on the visit to Northern Ireland carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 29 November to 8 December 1999. European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, (Council of Europe) May 2001, pp60.
The Committee visited Castlereagh Holding Centre and Musgrave Street police station in Belfast and Gough Street Holding Centre, Armagh. Two prisons were inspected (Maghaberry and Magilligan) and two juvenile centres (Lisnevin and Rathgael). Following the lack of improvement in the "unsatisfactory" conditions at Castlereagh the CPT recommended its closure; consequently the holding centre closed at the end of December 1999.
Response of the United Kingdom government to the report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) on its visit to Northern Ireland from 29 November to 8 December 1999. European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, (Council of Europe) May 2001, pp24.
RUC Special Branch destroyed evidence and lied to Stevens, Laura Friel. An Phoblacht/Republican News 3.5.01, p2.
This article alleges that the RUC Special Branch destroyed a taped confession to the murder of Belfast solicitor, Pat Finucane, who was shot dead at his North Belfast home in February 1989. According to RUC officer Johnston Brown a secretly taped conversation in which a UDA gunman admitted his involvement in the killing of Finucane was destroyed and substituted.
Statistics on the operation of the Prevention of Terrorism Acts Northern Ireland 2000, Michael Willis. Northern Ireland Office Research & Statistical Bulletin 6 (June) 2001, pp12.
The Northern Ireland prison population in 2000, Laura Hague and Michael White. Northern Ireland Office Research & Statistical Bulletin 7 (July) 2001, pp24.
MoD blocks Stevens probe, Laura Friel. An Phoblacht/Republican News 14.6.01, p4.
This article describes a Ministry of Defence intervention to prevent the Stevens inquiry team from questioning a key FRU (Force Research Unit) operative, Captain Margaret Walshaw, at the centre of the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.
Parliamentary debates
Victims of Crime (Northern Ireland) Commons 23.1.01 cols 201WH-214WH
Political Parties Commons 6.2.01 cols 875-898
Electoral Malpractice (Northern Ireland) Commons 29.3.01 325WH-350WH
Northern Ireland Commons 2.4.01 cols 134-154
Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 Lords 30.4.01 cols 1641-1645
Anglo-Irish Relations (Official Documents) Commons 9.5.01 cols 124WH-130WH