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Accountability, Policing and the Police Service Of
Topping, J. R. (2016) ‘Accountability, Policing and the Police Service of Northern Ireland: Local Practice, Global Standards?’, in S. Lister and M. Rowe (eds.) Accountability of Policing (Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice). Oxon: Routledge. Accountability, Policing and the Police Service of Northern Ireland: Local Practice, Global Standards? John Topping Almost without exception, both the development and operationalization of police accountability in Northern Ireland have gone hand-in-hand with the much lauded and complex reform process set in motion by the far-reaching recommendations of the Independent Commission for Policing in Northern Ireland (ICP, 1999). Beneath the international attention focused upon the polity’s policing affairs over nearly four decades, it may be observed that ‘knowing’ and ‘overseeing’ what the police ‘do’ have become integral to the country’s contemporary policing (and political) landscape. As part of the implicit ICP policy of ‘wrestling’ policing from the state and giving it ‘back to the people’ (Topping, 2008b), creating one of the world’s most accountable police services has become the bedrock of community trust and legitimacy not just in the police, but so too the state – not withstanding the importance of policing to the wider political settlement and stability in the country (O’Rawe, 2003). Thus, on both vertical (structural) and horizontal (socio-political) plains, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has become governed by a host of statutory, governmental and other bodies – generally conceived as the global ‘gold standard’ of police oversight, not limited to operational policing, human rights, public order policing and organisational governance (Ellison, 2007; Office of the Oversight Commissioner, 2007; Topping, 2008a). -
To Serve Without Favor
TO SERVE WITHOUT FAVOR Policing, Human Rights, and Accountability in Northern Ireland Human Rights Watch/Helsinki Human Rights Watch New York AAA Washington AAA London AAA Brussels Copyright 8 May 1997 by Human Rights Watch All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN 1-56432-216-5 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-73331 Cover photograph copyright 8 1996 by Oistín Mac Bride. RUC riot squad in Drumcree. Addresses for Human Rights Watch 485 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6104 Tel: (212) 972-8400, Fax: (212) 972-0905, E-mail: [email protected] 1522 K Street, N.W., #910, Washington, DC 20005-1202 Tel: (202) 371-6592, Fax: (202) 371-0124, E-mail: [email protected] 33 Islington High Street, N1 9LH London, UK Tel: (171) 713-1995, Fax: (171) 713-1800, E-mail: [email protected] 15 Rue Van Campenhout, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Tel: (2) 732-2009, Fax: (2) 732-0471, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site Address: http://www.hrw.org Gopher Address://gopher.humanrights.org:5000/11/int/Human Rights Watch Listserv address: To subscribe to the list, send an e-mail message to [email protected] with Asubscribe Human Rights Watch-news@ in the body of the message (leave the subject line blank). HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Human Rights Watch conducts regular, systematic investigations of human rights abuses in some seventy countries around the world. Our reputation for timely, reliable disclosures has made us an essential source of information for those concerned with human rights. We address the human rights practices of governments of all political stripes, of all geopolitical alignments, and of all ethnic and religious persuasions. -
Parades and Protests – an Annotated Bibliography
P a Parades and Protests r a d e An Annotated Bibliography s a n d P r o t e s t s - A n A n n o t This publication reviews all the major policy documents, community a t publications, academic papers and books that focus on the contemporary e culture of parading and the current cycle of protests related to parades in d Northern Ireland. It provides an outline of discussion and analysis contained in B i nearly ninety documents that have been published since 1982. This annotated b l bibliography will be a valuable resource for community groups and i o organisations working on the subject of parades and associated issues as well as g r for policy makers, researchers and academics. a p h y J Institute for Conflict Research o h North City Business Centre n B 2 Duncairn Gardens, e l Belfast BT15 2GG l Northern Ireland John Bell ISBN 978-0-9552259-3-2 Telephone: +44 (0)28 9074 2682 Fax: +44 (0)28 9035 6654 £5 2903IC~1.QXD:1417 ICR Migrant 5/10/07 14:58 Page 1 Parades and Protests An Annotated Bibliography John Bell Institute for Conflict Research 2903IC~1.QXD:1417 ICR Migrant 5/10/07 14:58 Page 2 Parades and Protests, an Annotated Bibliography First Published October 2007 Institute for Conflict Research North City Business Centre 2 Duncairn Gardens Belfast BT15 2GG Tel: +44 (0)28 9074 2682 Email: [email protected] Web: www.conflictresearch.org.uk Belfast Interface Project Third Floor 109-113 Royal Avenue Belfast BT1 1FF Tel: +44 (0)28 9024 2828 Email: [email protected] Web: www.belfastinterfaceproject.org ISBN: 978-0-9552259-3-2 This project has been funded through the Belfast City Council Good Relations Programme Unit and the Community Relations Council. -
Parade Disputes and the Peace Process, 1995-1998
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Fordham University School of Law Fordham International Law Journal Volume 22, Issue 4 1998 Article 15 Regulating Rights and Managing Public Order: Parade Disputes and the Peace Process, 1995-1998 Neil Jarman∗ ∗ Copyright c 1998 by the authors. Fordham International Law Journal is produced by The Berke- ley Electronic Press (bepress). http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj Regulating Rights and Managing Public Order: Parade Disputes and the Peace Process, 1995-1998 Neil Jarman Abstract This Essay explores the problems that have emerged over the right to parade since 1994. It be- gins with a brief review of the historical significance of parades in Ireland before summarizing the background to the current disputes. This Essay considers the causes of the problem, the arguments of the various parties, and the development of legal controls on parades. The Essay then moves on to review the attempts that have been made to resolve the issue. In particular, the Essay focuses on the formal measures that have been taken by the British Government to resolve the disputes rather than the practical measures taken to mediate, negotiate, and police the problems at a local level. Such measures include the consideration given to the problem in the report of the Indepen- dent Review of Parades and Marches, changes that have been made to the legislation governing parading, and the formation of the Parades Commission with powers to issue legal determinations over disputes. REGULATING RIGHTS AND MANAGING PUBLIC ORDER: PARADE DISPUTES AND THE PEACE PROCESS, 1995-1998 Neil Jarman* The Good Friday Agreement contains no references to pa- rades, marches, processions, or demonstrations. -
A Society in Transition: the Protestant Community in Tyrone 1836-42 Daragh Emmett Curran Thesis for the Degree of Ph.D Departmen
A SOCIETY IN TRANSITION: THE PROTESTANT COMMUNITY IN TYRONE 1836-42 DARAGH EMMETT CURRAN THESIS FOR THE DEGREE OF PH.D DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH SUPERVISOR OF RESEARCH: PROFESSOR RAYMOND GILLESPIE SEPTEMBER, 2010 A society in transition: The Protestant community of County Tyrone 1836-42. Daragh Emmett Curran This thesis deals with the transition that was taking place in Protestant society in the immediate pre-famine period in County Tyrone. It explores how this community, at all social levels, reacted to the changes that were occurring and which were considered detrimental to its position of dominance in society. These changes had the potential to dramatically affect the traditional paternalistic relationship that bound the lower classes to their social betters and this study examines how this relationship survived through economic recession, changes in law and order, increasing concessions being granted to Catholics, lessening government support for the Protestant Church, and the suppression of the dominant Protestant association of the time- the Orange Order. The Order played an integral part in the lives of many Protestants and was an organization that transcended the class divide. Because of this, it becomes the pivot around which this work revolves as the Order, with its wide-stretching network, helped maintain the patriarchal relationship that bound the classes together. It is also a useful tool through which to examine attitudes towards law and order within the Protestant community as changes within this area, especially within the magistracy, affected the upper classes, the very people that the lower classes looked to for guidance. -
Papers of Richard Southwell Bourke, 6Th Earl of Mayo
Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland Collection List No. 126 Mayo Papers [MS 11,017-11,043; 11,142-11,257; 11,926-11,931; 11,950-11,953; 43,816-43,888 MS L 118 & 119] The correspondence and official papers of Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, (1822-72), covering his political life as Chief Secretary for Ireland (1852, 1858-9 and 1866-8). Also contains some of his papers as Viceroy of India (1868-72), as well as a small collection of personal papers. Compiled by Stephen Ball, Ph.D., Temporary Cataloguer and Harriet Wheelock, Archival Studentship Holder, 2007. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................5 Biography...................................................................................................................5 Papers.........................................................................................................................6 Arrangement ..............................................................................................................7 Assessment.................................................................................................................7 Bibliography ..............................................................................................................7 I. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND ...8 I.i. General Correspondence ......................................................................................8 I.i.1. -
Gormanston Papers
Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland Collection List No. 132 Gormanston Papers (MSS 42,021; 44,346 - 44,462 & MSL 128) (Accession Nos: 2402 & 5759.) A collection of estate and family papers of the Preston family of Gormanston, in counties Meath and Dublin (1605 – 1932), with original material relating to Catholic Emancipation and the establishment of an Irish Catholic Yeomanry force. Compiled by Dr Sonja Tiernan holder of the Studentship in Irish History provided by the National Library of Ireland in association with the National Committee for History. 2007-2008. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 7 PRESTON PEDIGREE.................................................................................................. 14 I. ESTATE RECORDS................................................................................................... 16 I.i. Title Deeds............................................................................................................... 16 I.i.1 County Meath .................................................................................................... 16 I.i.2. County Dublin .................................................................................................. 24 I.i.3. Other Counties.................................................................................................. 25 I.ii. Leases and Agreements......................................................................................... -
2435M ID Report
Policy and Practice Directorate Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland Police Identification in Northern Ireland A Report under Section 60A of the Police (NI) Act 1998 March 2006 ISBN 978-0-9552590-0-5 Police Identification in Northern Ireland: A Report Under Section 60A of the Police (NI) Act 1998 Contents 02 29 Foreword by the Police Ombudsman Chapter 6: Interviews for Northern Ireland 31 03 Chapter 7: Conclusion Executive Summary and Recommendations 05 33 Chapter 1: Introduction Annex 1: Benchmarking of Methods of Police Identification used by 08 UK Police Services Chapter 2: Survey Methodology 38 09 Appendix A: Covering Letter Chapter 3: Public Consultation Survey Results 39 Appendix B: Consultation Form 17 Chapter 4: Police Consultation 43 Survey Results Appendix C: Reminder Letter 26 44 Chapter 5: Focus Group Appendix D: Location of Respondents Policy and Practice Directorate Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland 1 Foreword by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland For many years people have talked about their inability to identify Police Officers both when they wish to compliment them on work well done, and also when they want to complain about some incident that has occurred. As an Office we have encountered occasions when it has been very difficult to identify individual police vehicles. The police are now very much committed to policing with the community and co-operated with us in the work now being published. What we have tried to do here is to examine the whole issue of police identification, to gauge public and police views on the matter, and to make sensible suggestions, which are designed to facilitate better officer and equipment identification. -
Dispute System Design and the Mediation of Contested Parades in Northern Ireland
Deepening Democracy? Dispute System Design and the Mediation of Contested Parades in Northern Ireland MICHAEL HAMILTON & DOMINIC BRYAN* The design of democratic institutions is a critical factor in determining their capacity to forestall, or limit the escalation of, identity-based conflict. In particular, the incorporation of dispute resolution mechanisms in institutional structures can create new spaces that facilitate dialogue and, potentially, greater recognition between disputants. Institutions, though, do more than merely provide alternative or new fora for dialogue: they can also serve to frame the terms of such interaction and, in so doing, funnel and re-articulate conceptions of justice and the public interest. Furthermore, they can enable the "bottom-up" negotiation of "satisfiers"--those measures capable of meeting or accommodating the multiple interests at stake. In this way, institutional design can bear directly upon the quality of democratic dialogue, serving either to expand or diminish the reserves of political opportunity. We argue that focusing greater attention on the design of dispute resolution mechanisms can help counteract the polarizing tendencies of elite mobilization. As procedural devices of dialogic interaction, such mechanisms can build consensus about the conception of justice underpinning public life, and so provide societies with "morally defensible processes" capable of responding to conflict in politics.' This implies that such mechanisms can constrain political self-interest, cap expectations about what democracy can realistically deliver, and encourage hitherto weak or non-existent consensus. The following section (Part 1) relates dispute system design to theories of democratic dialogue, and in particular, Habermasian theories of communicative action. It develops the concept of "democratic triangulation," which we use to illustrate the important role that alternative dispute * Michael Hamilton is a lecturer at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster. -
INTRODUCTION Fenianism Is Not by Any Means a Plant Likely to Take Root
INTRODUCTION Fenianism is not by any means a plant likely to take root, much less to flourish in Australian soil... Melbourne Age, 14 August 1868 Among the poorer and most ignorant of Irish Romas Catholics in Victoria a feeling of sympathy with the Fenian movement is widespread... Police Superintendent C.H. Nicholson, 9 March 18681 For almost two hundred years British imperial hegemony has been steadily disintegrating in Australia. In the same period a sense of Australian national identity has been emerging: shaped by the land itself, its great distance from the British Isles, and by conflicting cultural pressures in matters racial, religious, socio-economic and political, arising from a mixed population. Prior to the heavy European and Asian immigration after World War II, the three principal cultures in Australia after 1788 were Aboriginal, 2 British and Irish-Catholic; and to this day the Irish are second only to the English component of 140 ethnic groups living in Australia. In the years focussed upon in this study, Irish Catholics comprised at least a quarter of the population of nearly all Australian colonies. Given the circumstances of British rule in Ireland, it was virtually inevitable that this high proportion of Irish convicts and free settlers in Australia would provide a key influence in the emergence of a distinctive Australian ethos, in much the same way that they influenced American nationalism in the United States. But was Irish national sentiment as strong in (1) Report, Fenianism 1868-9, CSO Supplementary Police Box 10, VPRO. (2) Throughout this thesis I arbitarily use British to mean of predominA:tly English, Scottish, Welsh or Ulster-Protestant descent, and Irish to mean, if not otherwise qualified, those who readily identified with Gaelic traditions and considered themselves to be Irish nationalists. -
Public Processions in Northern Ireland and Restates This Law in the Form of Primary Rather Than Secondary Legislation
RESEARCH PAPER 98/11 Public Processions in 13 JANUARY 1998 Northern Ireland This paper summarises the current public order legislation in Northern Ireland and considers some analyses of the issues surrounding parades in Northern Ireland. It also describes the background to the introduction of the Public Processions (Northern Ireland Bill) [HL] [Bill 101 of 1997-98] which received a Second Reading in the House of Commons on December 18th 1997, having completed its passage through the House of Lords. The paper goes on to summarise the Bill’s provisions and the Parliamentary debate on its provisions. Mary Baber HOME AFFAIRS SECTION HOUSE OF COMMONS LIBRARY Recent Library Research Papers include: 98/1 The Scotland Bill: Devolution and Scotland's Parliament 07.01.98 98/2 The Scotland Bill: Some Operational Aspects of Scottish Devolution 07.01.98 98/3 The Scotland Bill: Some Constitutional and Representational Aspects 07.01.98 98/5 The Scotland Bill: the Scottish Parliament and Local Government 07.01.98 98/7 Regional Development Agencies Bill [Bill 100 of 1997/98] 09.01.98 98/9 Regional Government in England 13.01.98 97/120 The European Parliamentary Elections Bill [Bill 65 of 1997/98] 19.11.97 97/129 The Government of Wales Bill: Devolution and the National Assembly 04.12.97 97/130 The Government of Wales Bill: The National Assembly's Partners 04.12.97 97/132 Government of Wales Bill: Operational Aspects of the 04.12.97 National Assembly Library Research Papers are compiled for the benefit of Members of Parliament and their personal staff. -
Can We Learn the Lessons from the Past?
ALL CHANGE BUT NO CHANGE: CAN WE LEARN THE LESSONS FROM THE PAST? Rev Brian Kennaway IBIS working paper no. 101 ALL CHANGE BUT NO CHANGE: CAN WE LEARN THE LESSONS FROM THE PAST? Rev Brian Kennaway Working Papers in British-Irish Studies No. 101, 2010 Institute for British-Irish Studies University College Dublin IBIS Working Papers No. 101, 2010 © the author, 2010 ISSN 1649-0304 ALL CHANGE BUT NO CHANGE: CAN WE LEARN THE LESSONS FROM THE PAST? Publication information Paper presented at the conference “Protestant Traditions and the Paths to Peace: Beyond the Legacies of Plantation”, held at University College Dublin on 9 June 2009. IBIS is grateful to the Department of the Taoiseach for its support in funding the conference. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Rev Brian Kennaway was brought up in North Belfast. After a time in industry he attended Magee University College Londonderry and Trinity College Dublin where he graduated in 1972. He attended Union Theological College Belfast and was or- dained into the Ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, in 1976. He served as Assistant Minister in Glengormley Presbyterian Church in North Bel- fast before becoming Minister of Crumlin Presbyterian Church, County Antrim, in 1977. He retired from Crumlin Presbyterian Church in January 2009. He is still ac- tive in the wider Church serving on a number of boards and committees of the Gen- eral Assembly. Brian has served on the Irish Government’s Inter-Departmental Committee, for the development of the Boyne Site, and was a regular contributor at the Police College of the RUC/PSNI.