In the three decades following 1969, the Army was heavily deployed in Northern Ireland, to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( later the Police Service of Northern Ireland ) in their conflict with republican paramilitary groups, called Operation Banner.

The locally recruited Ulster Defence Regiment was formed, later becoming home service battalions in the Royal Irish Regiment in 1992, before being disbanded in 2006.

Following attacks on civil rights marchers by Protestant loyalists, as well as members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ), anger and violence mounted.

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.

Targets of the CIRA have included the British military, the Northern Ireland police service ( Royal Ulster Constabulary, Police Service of Northern Ireland ) and Ulster loyalist paramilitaries.

The town's name ( with the archaic spelling ) continues to form part of the title to The Royal Irish Regiment ( 27th ( Inniskilling ) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment ).

* 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.

* 1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.

A Police Service of Northern Ireland / Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Northern Ireland.

* Five Royal Schools in Ulster are given Royal Charter by King James I

** Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry.

** British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

* 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.

** The Royal Ulster Constabulary is officially founded.

* April 17 – The Stevens Report concludes that members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and British Army cooperated with the Ulster Defence Association in the killings of Catholics in Northern Ireland.

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.

Then, in 1986, he again argued that Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) had not killed Neave but that " MI6 and their friends " were responsible instead, claiming to have been told so by Royal Ulster Constabulary officers.

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* Royal Ulster Constabulary, the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001

Following the awarding of the George Cross in 2000, it was subsequently known as the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC.

The Black and Tans () were one of two ad hoc paramilitary units employed by the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) as Temporary Constables from 1920 to 1921 to suppress revolution in Ireland, the other body being the Auxiliaries.

In the same month the Irish Republican Army began the Irish War of Independence, a guerrilla campaign against British rule ; in 1919 this consisted of attacks on the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ).

A total of 404 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary died in the conflict and more than 600 were wounded but it is not clear how many of these were pre-war RIC men and how many were Black and Tans or Auxiliaries.

Category: Royal Irish Constabulary

There were some actions in other parts of Ireland: however, except for the attack on the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Ashbourne, County Meath, they were minor.

The Commission heard evidence from Sir Matthew Nathan, Augustine Birrell, Lord Wimborne, Sir Neville Chamberlain ( Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary ), General Lovick Friend, Major Ivor Price of Military Intelligence and others.

Other similarities include the fact that some Accompong Maroons formation bear the passing resemblance to the Irish reel ; and the Jamaican Constabulary is patterned after the Royal Iris Constabulary, complete with the red stripe on the pants leg.

In fact, the Royal Irish Constabulary estimated that 162 companies of volunteers were active in the country, although other sources suggest a higher figure of 390.

The fear was increased when, on the very day the new national parliament was meeting, 21 January 1919, members of the IRA Third Tipperary Brigade led by Seán Treacy and Dan Breen seized a quantity of gelignite and two Royal Irish Constabulary constables ( James McDonnell and Patrick O ' Connell ) were shot dead in the process.

Attacks on remote Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) barracks continued throughout 1919 and 1920, forcing the police to consolidate defensively in the larger towns, effectively placing large areas of the countryside in the hands of the Republicans.

In addition, there were some arms raids on Royal Irish Constabulary barracks.

The first organized police force in Ireland came about through the Peace Preservation Act of 1814, but the Irish Constabulary Act of 1822 marked the true beginning of the Royal Irish Constabulary.

In Canada, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was founded in 1729, making it the first police force in present day Canada.

Most police forces salute similar to the Canadian Forces standard, with the exception of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, which follow the British Army standard of saluting with the full palm facing forward, touching the brim of the hat, if worn.

On 29 April 1922, King George V granted to the force the name Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ).

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.

At the age of 15, Wright, whilst attending Markethill High School, took a part-time job as a farm labourer where he came into contact with a number of staunchly unionist and loyalist farmers who served with the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) Reserve or the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ).

Recently it has emerged from the Police Ombudsman that senior North Belfast UVF member and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) Special Branch informant Mark Haddock has been involved in drug dealing.

The march passed off after the decision was made by the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) to allow it and Paisley ended the march hand in hand with David Trimble who appeared to perform a " Victory Jig ".

Strabane suffered extensive damage during the Troubles, from the early 1970s and continuing throughout much of the 1990s, with bombings and shootings commonplace: Irish Republican paramilitary groups, mainly the Provisional Irish Republican Army, regularly attacked the town's British army and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) bases.

Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) detectives believe his unit killed up to 40 people in this period.

Although almost two – thirds of these weapons were later recovered by the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ), they enabled the UDA to launch an assassination campaign against their perceived enemies.

The government forces involved include the Force Research Unit of the British army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ), in particular its Special Branch.

The Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) and British Army only effectively cleared a small number of areas before the bombs went off.

The George Cross has, on the express instruction of the Sovereign, been awarded twice on a collective basis, to the island of Malta and the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ).

The protesters were evicted by officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ), one of whom was Emily Beattie's brother.

The march in Derry on 5 October 1968, banned by William Craig the Minister of Home Affairs, was met with violence from the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) who batoned protesters, among them prominent politicians.

The strategy began materializing with the destruction of two Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Ballygawley in December 1985 ( resulting in the death of two RUC officers ), and in The Birches in August 1986.

The gang included members of the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ), soldiers of the British Army and police officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ).

The party also opposed the re-organising of policing in Northern Ireland, which saw the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) being replaced by the Police Service of Northern Ireland ( PSNI ).

There was opposition from Loyalists, who were aided by the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ), Northern Ireland's police force.