On October 18 2001 the Derry News ran a major article on local school pupils'
attitudes towards the proposed new police force. The two articles, the pupils'
views and their teachers' responses,
are reproduced here with kind permission of the Derry News.
The Sammy Devenny Investigation (October 10 2001)
Report Of The Police Ombudsman
For Northern Ireland Into A Complaint Made By The Devenny Family On 20 April
2001
Appendix 1:
Document 1 - Statement
of the Chief Constable, Sir Arthur Young
Document 2 - Statement
by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons
Appendix 2 - The Amnesty
Statement of 6 May 1969
Police Ombudsman releases results of Devenny Investigation (October 04
2001)
Devenny family to respond to
Police Ombudsman’s report
Statement from Devenny family
Press release from PFC
A response to the Police Plan
(Wednesday 08 August 2001).
The Walker report - Internal RUC
instructions governing the interchange of intelligence between RUC Special
Branch and the CID.
The European Court of Human Rights today ruled that the British Government
had violated Article 2 of the European Convention - download the ruling as
a Microsoft Word Document in a zip archive here
The address by Brendan O'Leary to the
Conference ‘Whose Police Service?’ organised by the PFC, and held as part
of the Bloody Sunday 2001 Commemoration.
Response to the Patten Commission
Recent revelations about collusion as listed in the news updates:
Jury Still Out on Collusion; Collusion
Storm
A Submission to the Independent Commission
into Policing
"Dancing on the graves of the state’s victims", an
article published in the Irish News by the PFC on 4th June 1999.
An article from the PFC on Pinochet and
the ghosts of the past which was published in the Irish News on October 22nd
1998.
The full content of an internal and confidential
RUC report into Religious and Political Harassment and Discrimination in the RUC
is now on the website. The document was marked "not for publication" but we
are of the view that the disturbing results of harassment and discrimination
within the RUC which emerge in this confidential document belong in the public
domain.
Statement issued by 33 lawyers from
throughout the North on 14.1.1998
In November the PFC was asked to make a submission to the Parliamentary
Select Committee on the issue of Policing. This is our
submission.
Ronnie Flanagan - A Fact File on the RUC
Chief Constable
PFC Press Release from May 19th
1997 detailing for the first time the statistical breakdown by gender and
religion of RUC members, including the total Catholic recruitment to the RUC
over the last three years.
See also weekly news updates 14 July, 20 July, 27 July, 24 Sept, 30 Sept,
16 Oct, 30 Oct, 8 Nov, 8th June
and 15th June, and 27th
April and in the same issue 27th
April
An extensive archive on policing is also available for those who can visit
our office in Derry.
"In The Line of Fire" - a report on events
in Derry 10-14 July 1996 following from the "Drumcree Standoff".
This document was based on interviews with over one hundred eye-witnesses
to the events in which the RUC and British Army fired several thousand plastic
bullets and killed one civilian.
It was published simultaneously on the WWW and on paper within two weeks
of the events on which it reported. (See
Publications of the PFC Section for details of paper version
(it Includes photographs)
One Day in August - A report
on human rights abuses by the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) during and after
the Apprentice Boys march in Derry on 12 August
1995. Originally published in 1995 this much sought after document is now
out of print. It is now available for the first time on the web. A must for
those who want a good introduction to the parades issue in Derry and elsewhere.
The PTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) -
Advice to the Irish Community in Britain.