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Monday, 6 January, 2003, 11:36 GMT

RUC REFORM

KEY STORIES
Concerns over police reforms
Delays in implementing changes to special branch are still a concern for the man overseeing policing reforms in Northern Ireland.

Policing plans provoke anger

Ex-prisoners 'may get policing role'

Police 'need cross-community support'

Unionist threat to policing board

Reid 'to proceed' with police reforms

Violence 'may wreck' police reforms

Policing Board hears crime concerns

Call to join NI policing partnerships

Reservists central to police chief's plan

Police 'stretched to limit'

Three in race for top police post

Concerns over Special Branch plan

Cross-border police deal signed

Police 'must account for Omagh actions'

Families shocked at Omagh report

Board agrees on NI police badge

Ban lifted on FBI training NI police

Unionists reject police badge design

First meeting for Policing Board

'New era' as NI police change name

RUC courage 'will not be forgotten'

Flanagan: Police will embrace change

Police recruitment 'will be 50:50'

UUP seeks policing assurances

Unionists split over policing support

SDLP defend support for policing plan

Catholic bishops back policing plan

ANALYSIS AND COMMENT
Policing changes will take time
BBC NI chief security correspondent Brian Rowan assesses policing reform as the RUC's name is about to change to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Policing change - Flanagan's view

RUC-PSNI: A serving officer's view

Head to head: Policing

Picture gallery: The RUC

RUC plan at a glance

RUC Reform: What the Act says

Unresolved deaths: A question of collusion?

The trouble with plastic bullets

Q&A: RUC reforms

Dark side of the war

THE PATTEN REPORT
RUC faces wholesale reform
The Patten report into the future of policing in Northern Ireland recommended a radical overhaul of the serivce.

Q&A: The Patten report

The personalities behind Patten

PROFILES
The RUC: Lauded and condemned
Awarded the George Cross but labelled sectarian, the RUC is one of the world's most controversial police forces.

Sir Ronnie Flanagan: Preparing for change

Constantine: From New York's mean streets

Chris Patten: Squaring up to change

REACTIONS TO PATTEN
Flanagan: Hurt at RUC renaming
The Royal Ulster Constabulary Chief Constable, former officers and the Police Federation say the change to the force's title will cause "great hurt".

Blair: RUC report 'the way forward'

Gratuitous insult, says UUP

RUC name change 'insult to victims'

Patten report 'flawed', says Police Federation


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