When it was deployed on duty in Northern Ireland, the British Army was welcomed by Roman Catholics as a neutral force there to protect them from Protestant mobs, the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) and the B-Specials.

In 1942, he participated in an IRA ambush on a Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) patrol but was himself shot, arrested and sentenced to eight years imprisonment.

Following the introduction of internment in 1971 " Operation Demetrius " was implemented by the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) and British Army with raids for 452 suspects on 9 August 1971.

The Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) was the name of the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2000.

The RUC was continually accused by sections of the minority nationalist community and human rights groups of one-sided policing and discrimination, as well as for its collusion with loyalist paramilitaries ( see below ).

Conversely, the RUC was praised by other security forces as one of the most professional policing operations in the world.

The RUC was limited by statute to a 3, 000-strong force.

The RUC were supported by the Ulster Special Constabulary, a volunteer body of part-time auxiliary police established before the Northern Ireland Government was set up, who had been given uniforms and training.

In response to the growth of motorised transport the RUC Traffic Branch was formed on 1 January 1930.

The RUC was a ' reserved occupation ', i. e. the police force was deemed essential to the war effort on the Home Front and its members were forbidden to leave to join the other services.

Initially the army was welcomed by Catholic nationalists in preference to the RUC and in particular the B Specials ( who were stood down on 30 April 1970 ).

The RUC Reserve was formed as an auxiliary police force, and all military-style duties were handed over to the newly formed Ulster Defence Regiment, which was under military command and replaced the B Specials.

In 1998 Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan stated in an interview on television that he was unhappy with any RUC officers belonging to the Orange Order or any of the other loyal orders.

The direction and control of the RUC was in the hands in the Chief Constable, who was assisted by two Deputy Chief Constables and nine Assistant Chief Constables.

From a nationalist perspective, the tone was set for the force at an early stage, when Dawson Bates in August 1922 gave the Orange Order special permission for an Orange Lodge to be formed in the RUC.

The minister with responsibility was an Orangeman, with a police Orange Lodge ; therefore he contends the RUC could scarcely be unbiased where the Unionist Party or the Orange Order was concerned.

The RUC was to be 3, 000-strong, recruiting 2, 000 ex-RIC and 1, 000 A Specials.

Social Democratic and Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) and critic of the force Seamus Mallon, who later served as Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, stated that the RUC was " 97 % Protestant and 100 % unionist ".

IRA attacks on Catholics who joined the RUC, and the perception that the police force was " a Protestant force for a Protestant people " meant that Catholic participation in the Royal Ulster Constabulary always remained disproportionally small in terms of the Catholic percentage of the overall Northern Irish population.

Two years later ( on 4 November 2001 ), the RUC was renamed and is now the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

The RUC was renamed on 4 November 2001 as a result of a ten-year reform plan for policing set up under the Belfast Agreement.

In the troubled politics of Northern Ireland, where political parties tend to be sharply split along religious lines, Hayes has been viewed as an even-handed observer, who has written or contributed to major policy reports, such as the Patten Commission dealing with reforms to the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ), the police force later renamed the Police Service of Northern Ireland ( PSNI ).

Because of this, it was common practice to use a one-hour forecast from the RUC as a current analysis, as the one-hour forecast would come out only a few minutes before the time it is forecasting for.

Roskilde University (, RUC ) is a Danish public university founded in 1972 and located in Trekroner in the Eastern part of Roskilde.

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

* The Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee ( RUC ) is largely privately run, an example of regulatory capture.

* RUC is secretive, with the meetings being closed to the public and uninvited observers.

* RUC police federation B-Specials page ( note: despite the domain name, this is not the official website of the RUC or its successor, the Police Service of Northern Ireland ( PSNI ))

Renmin University of China ; RUC, also known as People's University of China (), colloquially Renda (), is a major research university in Haidian District, Beijing, China.

RUC and UDR involvement with loyalist paramilitaries is established by admission of some of those involved – see Billy McCaughey.

He is said to have worked as an agent for the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) Special Branch.

The Special Air Service ( SAS ) is the most high-profile of the agencies that were accused of employing this policy, as well as other British Army regiments and the RUC.

It is alleged that the RUC failed to protect the march.

The Barron Inquiry found a chain of ballistic history linking weapons and killings under the control of a group of UVF and security force members, including RUC Special Patrol Group members John Weir and Billy McCaughey, that is connected to those alleged to have carried out the bombings.

The study lead by Dr. Miriam J. Laugesen, of Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and colleagues at UCLA and the University of Illinois, shows that for services provided between 1994 and 2010, CMS agreed with 87. 4 % of the recommendations of the committee, known as RUC or the Relative Value Update Committee.

According to RUC reports, the UVF had provided the IRA hit team with the details of Murphy's habits and movements, which allowed them to assassinate him at that particular location.

Both the Official IRA and Provisional IRA had established " no-go " areas for the British Army and RUC in Derry through the use of barricades.

* 1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

* February 28 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing 9 officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

In May 1937 a new white glass lamp with the RUC crest went up for the first time to replace the RIC crest still on many stations.

On 12 April 2000, the RUC was awarded the George Cross for bravery in dealing with terrorist threat, a rare honour which had only been awarded collectively once before, to the island nation of Malta.

Between 1922 and 1969 the position of Inspector-General of the RUC was held by five officers, the last being Sir Arthur Young, who was seconded for a year from the City of London Police to implement the Hunt Report and disarm the police and disband the Ulster Special Constabulary (' B ' Specials ).

The RUC was designed to provide accurate short-range ( 0-to 12-hr, later expanded to 18-hr in 2010 ) numerical forecast guidance for weather-sensitive users, such as those in the aviation community.

The RUC ran at the highest frequency of any forecast model at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction ( NCEP ), assimilating recent observations to provide very high frequency updates of current conditions and short-range forecasts.

He was specifically told that a dedicated Military Intelligence unit did not operate in Northern Ireland and only found out about the Force Research Unit when senior RUC officers blamed the unit for an arson attack at his Inquiry headquarters.

2. 17 My Enquiry team also investigated an allegation that senior RUC officers briefed the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Rt Hon Douglas Hogg QC, MP, that ‘ some solicitors were unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA ’.

Mileage based usage fees ( MBUF ) or distance based charging has been implemented for heavy vehicles based on truck weight and distance traveled in New Zealand ( called RUC ), Switzerland ( LSVA ), Germany ( LKW-Maut ), Austria ( Go-Maut ), Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and in four U. S. states: Oregon, New York, Kentucky and New Mexico.

Support for the ban remained throughout The Troubles, particularly in Northern Ireland where GAA members were often targeted for harassment and abuse by the RUC and British Army.

A separate committee, the Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee ( RUC ), meets three times a year to set new values, determines the Relative Value Units ( RVUs ) for each new code, and revalues all existing codes at least once every five years.

This ' questionable ' use of Garda / RUC Special Branch liaison, set up under the 1985 Hillsborough Anglo-Irish Agreement, prevented meetings between the Garda commissioner and the RUC chief constable for almost three years.