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Thu 08 Aug 2009PSNI needs to make a difference on the ground
If the police duck confrontation with sectarian and racist bullies, people are entitled to fret, and ask hard questions, writes FIONNUALA O'CONNOR
POLICING MATTERS everywhere, but the North’s body politic has anxiety about it in the nervous system like never-to-be eradicated shingles. One English chief constable in the North is about to be replaced by another – implicit acknowledgement that the revamped police service, like the made-over Northern Ireland, is not ready yet to choose a local leader.
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