The Police Complaints System in Northern Ireland

See for example the “Explanatory Document” issued with the Proposal for a Draft Order in Council in July 1986.

S. 24.

Report of the Advisory Committee on the Police in Northern Ireland (1969) Cmnd. 535 Para. 133 (The Hunt Report).

Disturbances in Northern Ireland — Report of the Commission Appointed by the Governor of Northern Ireland (1969) Cmnd. 532 p. 103. (The Cameron Report).

NI House of Commons Debates. Vol. 75. p. 393. (Mr. Porter, Minister of Home Affairs).

Report of the Committee to Consider Measures to deal with Terrorism in NI (1975) Cmnd. 5847. para. 96. (The Gardiner Report).

The Handling of Complaints Against the Police — Report of the Working Party for NI (1976) Cmnd. 6475. (The Black Report).

NI Constitutional Proposals (March 1973) Cmnd. 5259 Para. 97.

The Hunt Report (supra) had already suggested this in 1969.

Op. cit., para. 2.

e.g. A Member of the Northern Ireland Police Authority was forced to resign in August 1986 as a result of threats to his life.

Figures extracted from: NI Annual Abstract of Statistics, Chief Constable's Annual Report 1985, Report of HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary 1986 (H.M.S.O.).

Extrapolating from the same source.

Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland (1969) Cmnd. 7497 Ch. 17 (The Bennett Report).

Ibid., ch. 16, para. 311.

Chief Constable's Annual Report 1985.

The Black Report (op. cit) Appendix 7.

Report of the Amnesty International Mission to NI (June 1977) p. 64.

The Bennett Report (op. cit).

R.U.C. (Discipline and Disciplinary Appeals) Regulations 1977, sch. 1.

C.A.J. Pamphlet No. 4 (May 1983) pp. 6–7.

“Police Beat” (the Journal of the NI Police Federation) Vol. 8 No. 10 (October 1986) p. 6.

Special Direction under art. 6(3)(b) of the Prosecution of Offences (NI) Order 1972 on 15/2/78 to the Chief Constable.

See e.g. Diplock Courts in NI: A Fair Trial? — Korff (Netherlands Institute of Human Rights — A commissioned study by Amnesty International), p. 74.

op. cit., p. 67.

Police Complaints and Discipline — A Consultative Paper (NIO) April 1985.

“Police Beat” (op. cit.), p. 6.

“Eplanatory Document” issued with the Proposal for a Draft Order in Council (July 1986), p. 2.

“Explanatory Document” op. cit., p. 5.

“Uses and Misuses of Comparative Law” — Kahn-Freund. Modern Law Review Vol. 37 (1974) pp. 1–27 at p. 27.