Tag: Pat Finucane

That was new policing alongside new politics. "Twenty years ago, we didn't realise the problem the past was going to be," Mr Hamilton says. "There was no commission to deal with the past, no architecture to deal with the past." Procrastination It was not until 2007 that a wider consultation began on the past with a report from a consultative group two years later. Will they proceed with legislation to implement the legacy structure that emerged from political negotiations in 2014, including a new Historical Investigations Unit (HIU) and an Independent Commission on Information Retrieval (ICIR)? "Policing has been damaged as we know, as headlines will tell you over the past month - or over the past 10 years - by its involvement in trying the deal with legacy," he told BBC Radio Ulster. 'Losing faith' Mr Hamilton has argued, throughout his tenure, that the past must be taken out of policing. In his community, Gerry Kelly sees the damage that is being done in terms of confidence in the PSNI. The question of legacy, the dissident republican threat now into its third decade and how to depoliticise policing are unresolved issues. If they remain so, then the arguments of new policing versus old policing will continue.