Editing Royal Ulster Constabulary (section)

==Casualties==
According to ''The Thin Green Line – The History of the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC'', written by RUC reservist [[Richard Doherty]], 314 officers were killed and over 9,000 were injured during the existence of the RUC. All but 12 of the dead were killed during the Troubles (1969 to 1998), of whom 277 were killed in attacks by [[Irish republican]]s.<ref name="doherty"/> According to the CAIN project at the [[University of Ulster]], however,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/tables/Status.html| title=CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths| first=Malcolm| last=Sutton| access-date=20 July 2006| archive-date=19 July 2006| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060719181809/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/tables/Status.html| url-status=live}}</ref> 301 RUC officers and 18 former or retired RUC officers were killed, totaling 319 fatalities.<ref>[http://www.policememorial.org.uk/Forces/IRELAND/Northern_Ireland-Criminal_Acts.htm policememorial.org.uk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091031064209/http://www.policememorial.org.uk/Forces/IRELAND/Northern_Ireland-Criminal_Acts.htm |date=31 October 2009 }}; accessed 21 February 2014.</ref>

The [[1985 Newry mortar attack|Newry mortar attack]] by the Provisional IRA on an RUC station in 1985, which killed nine officers (including two Catholics), resulted in the highest number of deaths inflicted on the RUC in one incident. The two highest-ranking RUC officers to be killed during "the Troubles" were [[1989 Jonesborough Ambush|Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Robert Buchanan]], who were ambushed by the [[Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade]] outside Jonesborough, County Armagh, on 20 March 1989. On 4 December 2013, in a report by judge Peter Smithwick in the [[Smithwick Tribunal]] (a public inquiry), it was alleged that members of the Republic's police force (Garda Síochána) had colluded in the killing of the two policemen.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25199800 Smithwick: Collusion in Bob Buchanan and Harry Breen murders] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922105846/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25199800 |date=22 September 2018 }}, BBC.co.uk; 3 December 2013; accessed 21 February 2014.</ref> The last RUC officer killed as a direct result of the conflict, Francis O'Reilly (a Catholic constable), died on 6 October 1998, a month after he had been injured in a [[Red Hand Defenders]] pipe-bomb attack in [[Portadown]] during the [[Drumcree conflict]].<ref>[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1998.html CAIN profile of RUC Officer Francis O'Reilly] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129092345/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1998.html |date=29 November 2014 }}, cain.ulst.ac.uk; accessed 20 February 2014.</ref>