The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), drew its officers largely from the majority community, Protestant and unionist.
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The Royal Ulster Constabulary stuck to its first theory of a sectarian motive.
Mr Kerr is the second police officer to have been murdered since the Royal Ulster Constabulary became the PSNI in 2001.
The Stormont Government's August 1969 Hunt Report recommended relieving the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) police force of duties of a military nature.
An effort by the Conservative Party to block a Bill proposing sweeping reforms of the Royal Ulster Constabulary has been defeated at Westminster.
The SDLP is seeking public inquiries into the Royal Ulster Constabulary's handling of the Robert Hamill, Rosemary Nelson and Pat Finucane murder cases.
The inquiry also heard that there were disagreements between the Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary over how to deal with the march.
It followed speculation that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) had intelligence before the explosion and made mistakes in its subsequent investigation of the atrocity.
The agreement, and particularly its provisions on sharing government with republicans, paramilitary prisoner releases and reforming the Royal Ulster Constabulary, has deeply divided unionism.
Chris Patten, shortly to become a British commissioner in Brussels, was recruited to run an inquiry into the future of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Sinn Fein has been lobbying the British and Irish governments over the weekend to insist that reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary is full implemented.
The British government has also implemented a huge reform of the former Royal Ulster Constabulary, which has now been renamed the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
It accused "securicrats" inside the Northern Ireland Office and the Royal Ulster Constabulary, of successfully lobbying to "remove the substance" of the Patten recommendations from the legislation.
He has described his own childhood as being "shattered" by the Troubles, most significantly the murder of a cousin who was a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
On Wednesday, Mr Haass will meet members of the Policing Board which came into being in November when the Royal Ulster Constabulary became the new Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Mr Constantine will monitor how changes to the Royal Ulster Constabulary are carried out based on the government's policing reform bill, put together following a report from the Patten Commission.
Prospects of a "yes" vote were dealt a blow when John Taylor said he was still not satisfied about concessions on the issue of retaining the Royal Ulster Constabulary name.
Nor have reports that Chris Patten, a former governor of Hong Kong and a European commissioner-designate, will recommend wholesale reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary in a report due on September 9th.
Meanwhile, Sinn Fein's Mitchel McLaughlin and Bairbre de Brun will lead a delegation to lobby MPs in London on Thursday ahead of a half-day Westminster debate on the reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Mr Rodgers said it was a poignant moment, as it was the first time that wreaths were laid bearing the name of the new Police Service of Northern Ireland, instead of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
In a letter to Ms Villiers, the MPs said they had concerns about "the lack of support provided to former agents who had infiltrated the IRA and other terrorist organisations on behalf of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the security services".
In a letter to her last month, they said they had concerns about "the lack of support provided to former agents who had infiltrated the IRA and other terrorist organisations on behalf of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the security services".
The vote on Rule 21 at Saturday's special congress was taken following the official changeover earlier this month from the Royal Ulster Constabulary into the Police Service of Northern Ireland, as part of measures under the Good Friday Agreement political accord.
Well I have said many times how deeply my officers, retired officers and bereaved families feel about the title of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and it's not for any political vestige, it's because we see it as our brand in the policing world.
At Monday night's meeting the party's executive passed a resolution expressing its opposition to proposals to change the name and symbols of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and to give Sinn Fein members an input into policing through the establishment of district policing partnership boards.
On Wednesday night, a UUP honorary secretary, David Brewster, and a number of party officers called for an earlier meeting of the party's 100-member executive to discuss what they called the "grave crisis" caused by the UK Government's plans to reform the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
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