Policing in Northern Ireland

The Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, headed by Lord Patten, concluded in its 1999 report: 'A new beginning for democratic accountability is key to a new beginning for policing and to involving the community as a whole in the delivery of policing. We recommend that an entirely new Policing Board be created'. This book is about the delivery of that new beginning for policing, achieved at a time when most commentators considered the Policing Board was itself likely to fragment along traditional community lines.