Police Service of Northern Ireland
The Police Servive of Northern Ireland is a police force that covers Northern Ireland. It is the successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary, created on Sunday 4th November 2001, as a result of a Policing Review set up under the Belfast Agreement. This agreement, which helped to end the Irish Republican Army's three-decade-long violent campaign against the Union of Northern Ireland and Great Britain, required the creation of an Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, which became known as the Patten Commission after its chairman, Chris Patten.Among the features of the PSNI are a policy of recruiting equal numbers of Protestants and Catholics, and the name and symbols of the organisation, which are designed not to offend either community.
