12749nam 22006494a 450 991081392780332120240417020924.01-84964-032-70-585-42582-5(CKB)111056486517312(StDuBDS)AH23054297(SSID)ssj0000133043(PQKBManifestationID)11145736(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133043(PQKBWorkID)10040688(PQKB)10732071(MiAaPQ)EBC3386104(Au-PeEL)EBL3386104(CaPaEBR)ebr5000385(CaONFJC)MIL987786(OCoLC)923330596(EXLCZ)9911105648651731219991213d2000 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe crowned harp policing Northern Ireland /Graham Ellison and Jim Smyth1st ed.LondonSterling, Va. Pluto Press20001 online resource (224 p.)Contemporary Irish studiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-1393-0 0-7453-1398-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-209) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Policing Nineteenth-century Ireland: Setting the Parameters -- Policing Class Society -- Was Ireland Different? -- Order and Control : the Policing Solution -- Policing and Legitimacy in Nineteenth- century Ireland -- 2. Policing After Partition: Constructing the Security Apparatus -- Establishing the RUC -- Organisation, Recruitment and Composition of the RUC -- Powers and Responsibilities -- The Ulster Special Constabulary -- Institutionalising Division -- 3. Policing under Stormont -- Normal Policing? -- A Decentralised Power Structure -- 'Community policing' under the Stormont regime? -- After 1945: Prelude to Crisis -- 4. The Impact of Civil Rights on Policing: Collapse and Failed Reform -- The Civil Rights Campaign -- Reform in a Vacuum: The Hunt Report -- Hunt: Failed Reform? -- 5. Criminalisation and Normalisation: The Counter-Insurgency Solution -- Introduction -- Suppressing Dissent: the Colonial War Model -- The Interregnum: 1972-75 -- The RUC and the Ulster Workers Strike -- Policing after the UWC Strike -- 6. Legitimacy, Counter-Insurgency and Policing: The Legacy of the 1970s -- Criminalisation, Interrogation and the Bennett Repor -- Policing the Hunger Strikes -- The Consolidation of Police Primacy -- Telling Tales: the Supergrass Years -- 7. Shooting to Kill? -- Background -- Undercover Operations and the RUC -- The Role of RUC Special Branch -- A Shoot-to-kill Policy? -- 8. Collusion and Death Squads -- Death Squads and Counter- insurgency -- The UDR and Collusion -- The British Army and the Use of Death Squads -- The Case of Brian Nelson and the FRU -- The Role of the RUC -- 9. Symbolism, Surveys and Police Legitimacy -- Policing as Cultural Category -- Public Attitudinal Surveys and the Manufacture of Consent -- The Under-representation of Certain For ms of Opinion.Conducting Opinion Poll Surveys in a Divided Society -- The Language of Surveys -- Reading the Survey Results: a Heretical View -- 'There is no public support for reforming the RUC' -- 'There is a broad spectrum of approval for the RUC's handling of ordinary crime' -- 'The RUC has a base of hidden support' -- 'The cultural symbolism of the RUC is an issue that Catholics do not feel strongly about' -- Conclusions -- 10. Epilogue: The Patten Report on the RUC -- The Public Meetings -- Accountability -- Cover Operations and Demilitarisation -- Composition -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Bibliography -- Index -- accountability -- xix -- 70-1 -- 184 -- 185-6 -- 189 -- Act of Union [1801] 8 -- Adams, Gerry 102 -- agrarian unrest -- 18th-19th centuries 5-6 -- 18th-19th centuries 9 -- 18th-19th centuries 12 -- repression by Irish Constabulary, 14-15 -- agricultural reform 5-6 -- alienation 152 -- Alliance Party -- 87 -- 160 -- ambushes -- 121-2 -- SAS, 117-18 -- Special Branch, 127 -- American War of Independence 6 -- Amnesty International -- 135 -- and collusion inquiry, 143 -- investigation [ 1975] 80 -- Report [ 1978] 95-7 -- Anglicisation -- 15 -- 16 -- Anglo-Irish Treaty [1922] 18 -- Anti-Partition League 43-4 -- Atkins, Humphrey, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 102 -- B Specials -- 11 -- 20 -- 21 -- 25-6 -- 56 -- and UDR, 138 -- in reserve, 29 -- in reserve, 30 -- barracks 21-2 -- Bates, Dawson -- 19 -- 22 -- Belfast -- 21 -- discrimination in, 47 -- RUC and USC organisation, 27 -- Belfast News Letter, anti-nationalist campaign 43 -- Bennett Report [1979] -- 96-7 -- 111 -- 127 -- 133 -- Bessbrook Support Unit [1977] 90 -- Birmingham, bombings [1974] 110 -- Black, Christopher, supergrass 111 -- bombing campaigns, England.94 -- 110 -- Bourn, John, Committee proposals 82-4 -- Boyle, John 107 -- Bradley, Francis 125 -- British Army -- xiv -- 187 -- and policy of police primacy, 95 -- and policy of police primacy, 104-10 -- and use of death-squads, 141-3 -- andUDR, 140 -- colonial war model for, 65 -- colonial war model for, 73-8 -- counter-insurgency experience, 136-7 -- deployment [ 62-3 -- direct confrontation policy, 74-5 -- FRU [Force Research Unit], 124 -- FRU [Force Research Unit], 143-4 -- FRU [Force Research Unit], 145 -- FRU [Force Research Unit], 146 -- in Ulster [from 20 -- in Ulster [from 34 -- interrogation, 70 -- Kitson's strategy, 75-8 -- operational autonomy, 149 -- opposition to policing role, 10 -- relations with nationalist community, 63 -- relations with RUC Special Branch, 105 -- relations with RUC Special Branch, 145-6 -- relegation to role of 'military aid to civil power' [ 84 -- under control of Stormont government, 63 -- under control of Stormont government, 74-5 -- undercover units, 106 -- undercover units, 124 -- undercover units, 187 -- use of Psychological Operations [Psyops], 77 -- British government -- and Stormont parliament, 55 -- and cost of policing Ireland, 29 -- decision to deploy Army, 62-3 -- Direct Rule, 70 -- Direct Rule, 76 -- Direct Rule, 78-84 -- failure to reform Northern Ireland, 72-3 -- reports on policing [ 63-70 -- British government in Ireland [Dublin Castle] -- attitude to Yeomanry, 10 -- perception of unrest [ 9-10 -- British Irish Rights Watch, on collusion 135 -- Brookeborough, Sir Basil Brooke, Viscount -- 35 -- 43 -- militia, 25 -- militia, 34 -- Burns, Sean -- 118 -- 119 -- Burntollet Bridge ambush [1969] -- 44 -- 58 -- Callaghan, James, Prime Minister 136 -- Cameron Commission, Report [1969] -- 61 -- 63 -- capital punishment, 'Bloody Code' 1-2 -- Carroll, Roddy 121.Carver, Field Marshal Lord 105 -- Castlereagh, interrogation centre 80 -- Castlereagh, Lord 12-13 -- casualties -- civilian, 76 -- from plastic bullets, 116 -- IRA volunteers, 117 -- security forces, 76 -- security forces, 117 -- security forces, 178 -- Catholic Church -- and hunger strikes, 102 -- in 19th-century Ireland 3 -- Catholic emancipation 12 -- Catholic population -- alienation of, xvii -- alienation of, 9 -- alienation of, 153-4 -- and Patten Report public meetings, 183-4 -- and support for RUC [disputed], xviii, 150-1 -- and support for RUC [disputed], xviii, 160-3 -- and support for RUC [disputed], xviii, 170-4 -- and support for RUC [disputed], xviii, 181-2 -- and public attitudes surveys, 160-2 -- development of identity, xvi, 54 -- discrimination against, 47-50 -- dissent suppressed, 24 -- dissent suppressed, 30 -- dissent suppressed, 31 -- dissent suppressed, 33 -- dissent suppressed, 41-3 -- middle class withdrawal from public office, 76 -- middle class, 6 -- middle class, 9 -- middle class, 14 -- need for reform ofRUC, 165-6 -- need for reform ofRUC, 165 -- perception of RUC, 168-9 -- perception of RUC, 168 -- RUC stereotyping, 42 -- support for IRA, 103-4 -- view of RUC's ordinary policing, 169-70 -- view of RUC's ordinary policing, 170 -- view of Yeomanry, 11 -- Catholics -- as members of Irish Constabulary, 13 -- as members of Irish Constabulary, 15 -- in RUCR [support for law], 174-5 -- in UDR, 73 -- in UDR, 138 -- in USC, 28 -- quota in RUC, 19-21 -- quota in RUC, 22-3 -- quota in RUC, 172-3 -- Chichester-Clark, J., Prime Minister 72 -- Churchill, Winston 29 -- CID -- and criminal investigations, 125-8 -- computer systems, 84 -- computer systems, 187 -- relations with Special Branch, 124 -- relations with Special Branch, 125-7 -- restructured, 84.Citizen's Defence Force [Fermanagh] 25 -- Civil Authorities [Special Powers] Bill [ -- Civil Authorities [Special Powers] Bill [ 23-4 -- Civil Authorities [Special Powers] Bill [ 31 -- 76 -- Civil Rights Movement -- xvi-xvii -- 53 -- 57 -- equated with IRA, 59-60 -- radicalisation of, 58-9 -- RUC and, 50 -- class -- xvi -- 37 -- 161-2 -- Collins, Michael 19 -- collusion -- formal and informal, 134 -- reports on, 135 -- reports on, 143 -- reports on, 144 -- RUC and, 146-8 -- Stevens Inquiry, 134 -- Stevens Inquiry, 142-3 -- UDR and, 138-41 -- with UWC strikers, 88 -- colonial government -- and nature of policing, 36-7 -- and nature of policing, 38-9 -- and nature of policing, 86 -- counter-insurgency role of Army, 65 -- counter-insurgency role of Army, 73-8 -- Committee for the Administration of Justice 135 -- Community Relations Branch [RUC] -- 86-7 -- 167 -- Community Relations Commission 72-3 -- community relations, with Catholics/nationalists -- 33 -- 41 -- 172-3 -- Compton, Sir Edmund, Report [1971] 70 -- confessions -- 92 -- 99 -- consent, policing by -- xix -- 33 -- 64 -- 86 -- 184 -- 185 -- 189 -- Constabulary Act [1922] 20 -- counter-insurgency -- and death-squads, 135-8 -- colonial war model for Army, 65 -- effect of measures on IRA, 92-3 -- Kitson's strategy, 75-8 -- RUC's role in, xv -- RUC's role in 85 -- RUC's role in, 91 -- RUC's role in, 177 -- tactics, 148 -- Craig, Sir James, NI Prime Minister -- 24 -- 29 -- and USC, 25 -- and quotas for Catholic membership of RUC, 20-1 -- Crawford, Lt. Colonel, command of USC 26 -- Creasey, General Timothy -- 104 -- 105 -- 109 -- 116 -- crime, low levels of normal [19th cent] -- 5 -- 9 -- Criminal Bar Association of Northern Ireland 114 -- criminalisation -- and political status of prisoners, 99-100 -- xvi -- 80 -- 81-2 -- 85-6.cultural awareness programmes 175-6.The Crowned Harp provides a detailed analysis of policing in Northern Ireland. Tracing its history from 1922, Ellison and Smyth portray the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) as an organisation burdened by its past as a colonial police force. They analyse its perceived close relationship with unionism and why, for many nationalists, the RUC embodied the problem of the legitimacy of Northern Ireland, arguing that decisions made on the organisation, composition and ideology of policing in the early years of the state had consequences which went beyond the everyday practice of policing. The authors provide an extended discussion of policing after the outbreak of civil unrest in 1969, ask why policing was cast in a paramilitary mould, and look at the use of special constabularies and the way in which the police dealt with social unrest which threatened to break down sectarian divisions. Examining the reorganisations of the RUC in the 1970's and 1980's, Ellison and Smyth focus on the various structural, legal and ideological components, the professionalisation of the force and the development of a coherent, if contradictory, ideology. The analysis of the RUC during this period sheds light on the problematic nature of using the police as a counter insurgency force in a divided society. Perceptions of the police, and the opinions of rank and file members are examined and an assessment is made of the various alternative models of policing, such as community policing and local control. This book offers important lessons about the nature of policing in divided societies.Contemporary Irish studies.PoliceNorthern IrelandPolice363.2/09416Ellison Graham1695483Smyth Jim1704686MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813927803321The crowned harp4090858UNINA