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It is a truism that the police forces in any country operate within the context and in the climate of political conditions and stability of that country. Their task of enforcing law and order is inevitably affected by social, economic and other circumstances arising out of these general conditions; it must perforce be more onerous in an unstable situation. We feel it desirable to make this obvious point, in view of the special difficulties under which the police have operated in the past, which may persist in the Province in the future, which are not of the making of the police themselves, and which make their task at times both difficult and distasteful.1
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See Dervla Murphy, A Place Apart (John Murray, 1978).
James Callaghan, A House Divided (Collins, 1973).
See also Brian Faulkner, Memoirs of a Statesman, Chap. 3 (Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1978).
A House Divided, James Callaghan (Collins, 1973);
Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return (Times Books, 1975);
Dervla Murphy, A Place Apart, (Murray, 1978);
P. Buckland, A History of Northern Ireland (Gill & Macmillan, 1981);
Merlyn Rees, Northern Ireland: a Personal Perspective (Methuen, 1985)
See, for example, Michael Farrell, Arming the Protestants (Pluto Press, 1983).
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Oliver, I. (1987). A Brief History. In: Police, Government and Accountability. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18557-3_5
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