A Tangled Web

A LETTER TO THE NEWSLETTER...



Further to Andrew's recent post, I sent this to the Newsletter this evening...



LDear Sir,



Permit me to respond to the distasteful attack on the proud reputation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary by Mr. Dave Wood, executive Director of the Police Ombudsman’s office. (Newsletter 6th July)



Mr Wood tells us how “shocked” he is by the general level of policing during the troubles. He then pontificates on how many victims of terrorism must have suffered “unnecessary agony” due to RUC incompetence at investigating murder scenes. Naturally Mr Woods goes on to praise the wonderful post-Belfast Agreement PSNI as a bastion of effective policing under the sterling leadership of Chief Constable Hugh Orde.



Let’s put the record straight; The RUC stood between this society and its descent into anarchy over a period of three decades. RUC officers gave their lives in defence of our liberty and hundreds of RUC families visit graveyards to remember their loved ones. Many thousands more were wounded in the terrorist blitzkrieg and carry the physical and mental scars to this day.



The IRA and other terrorist mafia despised the RUC primarily because of its superb professionalism under the most testing circumstances. The terror warlords feared the effective policing skills of the RUC. The majority of ordinary unionists, if not their political representatives, opposed the cowardly decision by Mr. Blair to sacrifice the RUC in order to win the approval of militant republicans.



If Mr. Woods wishes to reflect on “unnecessary agonies” he might consider how those RUC officers who risked life and limb to bring to justice IRA, UVF and UDA murderers felt when the gate of the Maze prison were flung open so these convicts could stroll free?



It is unfortunate that Mr. Woods criticises the performance of the RUC at a time when crime is spiralling out of control, when the “highly competent” PSNI rate of conviction of IRA terrorists is zero, and when the PSNI Chief Constable is indistinguishable from a politician telling us that the justice for 1800 unsolved murder should be forgotten about and substituted by a useless Truth and Reconciliation Commission.



The RUC was widely praised as the very model of skilled policing under the most trying of circumstances. The thin green line held firm even as political leaders and their courtiers in quangoland demonstrate a thin yellow line down their spines. etters to the Editor

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