Policing structures and public accountability in Northern Ireland

Local Government Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 229-244

  Connolly, Michael ^a   Law, Jennifer ^a   Topping, Ivan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 10144230062     PISSN: 03003930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03003939608433842     Document Type: Article

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1. This paper owes much to Kieron Walsh to whose memory it is respectfully dedicated. Kieron sought to encourage our interest in the governance of Northern Ireland, believing, as we do, that it has important implicitions for the rest of the UK. For that and much else we are profoundly grateful.
2. P. Day and R. Klein, Accountabilities: Five Public Services (London: Tavistock, 1987), p.26.
3. S. Ranson, Towards a Political Theory of Public Accountability in Eduction', Local Government Studies, Vol.12, No.4 (1986), pp.77-98.
4. Ibid., p.78.
5. A. Dunsire, Control in a Bureaucracy: The Execution Process, Vol.2 (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1978), p.41.
6. Day and Klein, op. cit., p.55.
7. G. Marshall, 'Police Accountability Revisited', in D. Bulter and A.H. Halsey (eds.), Policy and Politics (London: MacMillan, 1978).
8. Police Act 1964.
9. B. Loveday, 'The Role of the Police Committee', Local Government Studies, Vol. 16, No.2 (1983), pp.39-52.
10. Ibid., p.44.
11. R. Morgan, 'Accountability and Consultation', Policing, Vol.3, No.2 (1987), pp.133-40.
12. K. Bloomfield, Stormont in Crisis: A Memoir (Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1994).
13. See, for example, C. Ryder, The RUC: Force Under Fire (Methuen: London, 1989).
14. P. Buckland, A History of Northern Ireland (Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 1981), p.64.
15. I. Topping, 'The Police Complaints System in Northern Ireland: A Repeated Transplant?', in M. Connolly and S. Loughlin (eds.), Public Policy in Northern Ireland; Adoption or Adaptation? (Belfast: PRI, 1990).
16. J. Brewer (with K. Magee), Inside the RUC: Routine Policing in a Divided Society (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), p.5.
17. Topping, op. cit.
18. It should be noted that police complaints are dealt with by a separate process, involving the Independent Commission for Police Complaints for Northern Ireland (see Topping, op. cit.).
19. Oliver, op. cit.
20. Belfast Telegraph. 16 Nov. 1994.
21. Ibid., 14 Nov. 1994.
22. Sunday Times, 1 Jan. 1995.
23. M. Weatheritt, Innovations in Policing (Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm, 1986).
24. L. Lustgarten, The Governance of the Police (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1986), p.28.
25. Weatheritt, op. cit., p.101.
26. For example on the Ulster Television programme 'Counter Point', 12 Jan. 1995.
27. Northern Ireland Office, Policing in ihe Community: Policing Structures in Northern Ireland (Belfast: HMSO, 1994), para.4.7, p.8.
28. Ibid., para.1.3.
29. Ibid., para.1.5.
30. Ibid., para. 1.6.
31. Ibid., para.5.5.
32. Ibid., para.5.5.
33. Ibid., para.1.6, p.2.
34. Ibid., para.5.6, p.10.
35. Ibid., para.5.3.
36. Ibid., para.5.10.
37. Ibid., para.5.12.
38. Day and Klein, op. cit.
39. S. Leach, 'Accountability in the Post-Abolition Metropolitan Government System', Local Government Studies, Vol.16, No.2 (1990), pp.13-31.
40. Day and Klein, op. cit.
41. B. Loveday, 'Management and Accountability in Public Services: A Police Case-Study', in K. Issac-Henry et al., Management in the Public Sector: Challenge and Change (London: Chapman and Hall, 1993), p. 147.
42. White Paper on Police Reform, Cm 2281.
43. Police and Magistrates Bill, s.4A.
44. Ibid., s.4B.