Democracy, Irish section of the Fourth International superficial proposal to change the name of the force and its badges has been denounced a an insult by serving members and others.
The rest of the proposals to mode rnise the RUC, covering issues like accountabil. ity, community policing, manage. ment, structures and training. There are 14 points on peace, indicating that the main torture Patten: minimal changes centres will be phased out and armoured land rovers gradually withdrawn - all of course conditional on the end of any resisThe issue of modernisation holds with it the issue of winning nationalist support and co-opting the nationalist middle class, the Dublin government SDLP. There are 36 proposals on accountability, summed up by one for there to be a police board of 10 assembly members and 9 unelected members, and for these structures to be replicated with local police boards at council level.
Implementing this would give the public in the north of Ireland roughly the same amount of control over the police the public in Britain have - that is about zero.
The game is given away by proposition 24 - the chief constaDie is to nave opctationa respon sibility - that is absolute control -over the force. In act & weCk after the setting up of the Patton report, the British rushed of state absolute authority over the RUC's chief constable. indicates their determination that at the end of the day they will remain the real authority hidden