Republican News · Thursday 9 January 1996
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Crisis of loyalty: RUC conspiracy exposed
SHARP divisions within the RUC have been given a public airing this week through the miscalculation of its Chief Constable Jack Hermon who published the contents of a letter he had sent to the RUC's main trade union, the Police Federation, and through the unbridled political ambition of Ian Paisley who published the minutes of the Federation meeting which followed the IRA execution of Robert Bradford, MP in mid-November. Those minutes showed widespread discontent and dissatisfaction with Hermon's leadership.
What emerges is a battle basically between the unashamedly sectarian majority within the RUC (who have no faith in the British government's military or political strategy and who are prepared to exercise the muscles of rebellion to secure their own ends) and a section of the hierarchy of the RUC which has been carefully chosen by Hermon, a loyal devotee to the British government and its counterinsurgency policies.
Phoblacht, 7 January 1982
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