Old files detail tactics for recruiting Catholics and women to RUC

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Old files detail tactics for recruiting Catholics and women to RUC

Recruitment strategy targeted shopping centres and nationalist newspapers.

Date - 24th August 2023
By - Police Oracle

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Newly released papers from the Public Record Office (PRO) in Belfast show how concerns about low representation of Catholics and women in policing in Northern Ireland in the late 1990s during the final years of the RUC were tackled. At the time the...

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