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Policing the Troubles and Post Conflict Northern Ireland: The Service Speaks book cover

1st Edition

Policing the Troubles and Post Conflict Northern Ireland The Service Speaks

Edited By Mark Kilgallon, Martin Wright, Gavin Boyd Copyright 2027
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

This book is focussed upon the unique policing environment of Northern Ireland and is especially directed towards that period of time from the late 1960s to 1998, often referred to as ‘The Troubles’, when the police faced an unprecedented and lethal threat from both addressing and being victims of terrorist violence. The book is comprised of a number of unique contributions by former and serving... Read more

Foreword & Critical Reflections
Judith Gillespie

1 Northern Ireland: policing change during the 90s'
Ronnie Flannagan and Andrew McInnes

2 ‘Policing Terror with Intelligence: Experiences from Northern Ireland’
Gavin Boyd

3 ‘Developing a Comprehensive Community Policing Strategy for Northern Ireland: What worked and Why’
Stephen White

4 ‘Omagh – The Dichotomy between Intelligence Collection and Criminal Investigations in Countering Terrorism’
Norman Baxter

5 Living with the Consequences of Emergency Legislation
Noel Martin and Ruth McGrath

6 ‘Leading complex change: what we can learn from the delivery of a ‘new’ police service for Northern Ireland’
Hugh Orde and Ian Pepper

7 ‘Using Northern Ireland as a Case Study in Officers' Experiences with Policing During Crisis: Expanding Perspectives on Understanding Resistance and Acceptance of Change’
Jess Bonnan-White

8 ‘How did the police in Northern Ireland handle false information during the Troubles? Are there lessons for police services today?’
Gordon Marnoch

9 ‘Spies, Lies and Accountability’
John Buckley

10 ‘Public Order, Public Safety: The Northern Ireland Challenge’
Duncan McCausland

Conclusion & Reflections
Jon Boutcher

Biography

Martin Wright is an Honorary Professor at Bangor University and Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Policing and Security, University of South Wales. He was a police officer for 30 years and is the creator of the Retail Radio Link community safety programme and the Virtual Police Volunteers initiative.

Mark Kilgallon is an accomplished executive coach with three decades of experience in developing leaders across public and private sectors. He is renowned for his practical leadership programmes with strong ethical focus. His academic interests centre on formal and informal leadership, organisational culture, and team power dynamics.

Gavin Boyd was a senior police officer in Northern Ireland. He won a Winston Churchill Fellowship studying policing in South Africa and the USA; worked successfully in academia. His interests include police accountability and reform, procedural justice and police intelligence.

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