JOHN Stevens, the UK’s most senior policeman, is retiring. Stevens has had a long association with Northern Ireland, investigating allegations of security force and loyalist collusion. Also moving on is Barbara Stephenson, the affable US Consul General in Belfast, who is taking up a State Department position in Washington. Stephenson, who did much to highlight integrated education during her tenure here, announced Dean Pitman as her replacement at her Independence Day garden party.
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