ULSTER CHANGE
New chief constable ZN.Z.P.A.-R»ut«r— Copyright) BELFAST, Nov. 22. A new head of the police force began his duties in Northern Ireland last week, and! vowed that his first aim would be to rid the province of gunmen and bomb-terror-ists.
Mr Graham Shillington, the I new Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, said that his second aim was to deal successfully with street demonstrations, riots., and attacks on policemen and troops by rioters using petrol bomba, stones and bottles, i
Ulster-bom, Mr Shillington took over three days aftei two men had been shot dead in broad daylight on a quiet Roman Catholic street in Belfast.
The murders ere believed to have been part of an internal struggle for control of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Mr Shillington said that only one class of person wax benefiting from the disturbances and that was the criminal.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32461, 23 November 1970, Page 11
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