RUC Special Branch
The Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch (RUC Special Branch) was also known as E Department.[1]
Contents
Structure
Head of Special Branch (HSB)
- Mick Slevin 1976
- Trevor Forbes c. 1982
- Brian Fitzsimons 1989-94
- Ronnie Flanagan 1994-95
- Fred Hall
- Raymond White
- Jim Gamble
Divisions
- E1 Administration Division
- E2 Legal Division
- E3 Intelligence Division
- E3A - republican groups
- E3B - loyalist groups
- E3C - leftist groups
- E4 Operations Division
- E4A - human surveillance
- E4B - technical surveillance
- E4C - photographic surveillance
- E4D - photographic surveillance
- E5 Collation Division - according to Mark Urban's 1992 account.[2] Belfast Region - according to testimony to the Billy Wright Inquiry.[3]
- E6 North Region[4]
- E7/8 South Region[5]
- E9 "responsible for assessing the strategic roles of terrorist organisations and performed a quality control function."[6]
- E9A 'central desk' - "responsible for targeting all operations against strategic targets within terrorist organisations, in other words, the leadership of those organisations."[7]
Weapons and Explosives Research Centre
The Weapons and Explosives Research Centre (Werc) was a unit located within the Northern Ireland Forensic Science Laboratory, manned by Special Branch officers.[8]
Notes
- ↑ Mark Urban, Big Boys' Rules, Faber and Faber, 1992, p.94.
- ↑ Mark Urban, Big Boys' Rules, Faber and Faber, 1992, p.94.
- ↑ Oral Hearings, day 136, Billy Wright Inquiry, 10 March 2009.
- ↑ Oral Hearings, day 136, Billy Wright Inquiry, 10 March 2009.
- ↑ Oral Hearings, day 136, Billy Wright Inquiry, 10 March 2009.
- ↑ The Rosemary Nelson Inquiry Report (PDF), Crown Copyright, 23 May 2001, p.163.
- ↑ Oral Hearings, Day 142, Billy Wright Inquiry, 20 March 2009.
- ↑ Lesley-Anne McKeown, RUC Special Branch 'knew loyalist killer Billy Wright was involved' in Roseann Mallon murder, Belfast Telegraph, 20 November 2013.
