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Monday, 6 January, 2003, 11:36 GMT

KEY STORIES

Concerns over police reforms
Delays in implementing changes to special branch are still a concern for the man overseeing policing reforms in Northern Ireland.

Policing plans provoke anger
Ex-prisoners 'may get policing role'
Police 'need cross-community support'
Unionist threat to policing board
Reid 'to proceed' with police reforms
Violence 'may wreck' police reforms
Policing Board hears crime concerns
Call to join NI policing partnerships
Reservists central to police chief's plan
Police 'stretched to limit'
Three in race for top police post
Concerns over Special Branch plan
Cross-border police deal signed
Police 'must account for Omagh actions'
Families shocked at Omagh report
Board agrees on NI police badge
Ban lifted on FBI training NI police
Unionists reject police badge design
First meeting for Policing Board
'New era' as NI police change name
RUC courage 'will not be forgotten'
Flanagan: Police will embrace change
Police recruitment 'will be 50:50'
UUP seeks policing assurances
Unionists split over policing support
SDLP defend support for policing plan
Catholic bishops back policing plan

ANALYSIS AND COMMENT

Policing changes will take time
BBC NI chief security correspondent Brian Rowan assesses policing reform as the RUC's name is about to change to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Policing change - Flanagan's view
RUC-PSNI: A serving officer's view
Head to head: Policing
Picture gallery: The RUC
RUC plan at a glance
RUC Reform: What the Act says
Unresolved deaths: A question of collusion?
The trouble with plastic bullets
Q&A: RUC reforms
Dark side of the war

THE PATTEN REPORT

RUC faces wholesale reform
The Patten report into the future of policing in Northern Ireland recommended a radical overhaul of the serivce.

Q&A: The Patten report
The personalities behind Patten

PROFILES

The RUC: Lauded and condemned
Awarded the George Cross but labelled sectarian, the RUC is one of the world's most controversial police forces.

Sir Ronnie Flanagan: Preparing for change
Constantine: From New York's mean streets
Chris Patten: Squaring up to change

REACTIONS TO PATTEN

Flanagan: Hurt at RUC renaming
The Royal Ulster Constabulary Chief Constable, former officers and the Police Federation say the change to the force's title will cause "great hurt".

Blair: RUC report 'the way forward'
Gratuitous insult, says UUP
RUC name change 'insult to victims'
Patten report 'flawed', says Police Federation