Editing Royal Ulster Constabulary (section)

====Special Patrol Group====
{{See also|Special Patrol Group (RUC)}}
The [[Special Patrol Group (RUC)|Special Patrol Group]] was formed in the late 1960s as the Police Reserve Force. The name was changed to avoid confusion with the newly formed part-time Police Reserve in 1970,<ref name="doherty"/> and was renamed "[[Divisional Mobile Support Unit]]" in 1980 after two of its members were convicted of kidnap and murder.<ref name="doherty"/> The two, [[John Weir (loyalist)|John Weir]] and [[Billy McCaughey]], implicated some of their colleagues in a range of crimes including giving weapons, information and transport to loyalist paramilitaries as well as carrying out shooting and bombing attacks of their own.<ref>[http://www.nd.edu/~cchr/publications/IIP_final_11_06_06.pdf Center for Civil & Human Rights] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070615232223/http://www.nd.edu/~cchr/publications/IIP_final_11_06_06.pdf |date=15 June 2007 }}, www.nd.edu; accessed 20 February 2014.</ref> Weir alleged that senior officers, including Chief Superintendent [[1989 Jonesborough ambush#Chief Superintendent Harry Breen|Harry Breen]], were aware of and approved of their activity.