Orde: one year on

Hugh Orde gets an ear bashing on the Lisburn road for a range of domestic crimes that plague its citizens. However Chris Thorton argues, what might be embarassing for a Cheif Constable anywhere else, can be interpreted as a mark of success for Orde’s first year in charge of the fledgling PSNI. Indeed compared to this time last year, the issue of policing appears to have gone off the boil.


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