Members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland were accused of desecrating the graves of the volunteers, although Superintendent Raymond Murray of the PSNI denied that they had any involvement.
They regard both (the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast and Oireactas Éireann) in the Irish Republic as illegitimate, along with their respective police forces - the PSNI and the Garda Síochána.
Gallagher was a staunch critic of UDA renegade brigadier Jim Gray and accused him of using his links with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (Gray having been alleged to have been a long-term police informant) to criminalize loyalist communities by building a drugs empire that the police would not touch.
He put himself forward as a protest against Sinn Féin's vote in January 2007 to support the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), a key provision of the St Andrews Agreement.
02 Dec 2008: Sinn Féin minister Conor Murphy claimed to have been told by the Police Service of Northern Ireland of a recent attempt on his life by the OV in the Newry area.
He was arrested by the PSNI for arson in the cherryvalley area of east Belfast but was released without charge.
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In 1998 he moved to the Royal Ulster Constabulary and he was briefly Acting Chief Constable of the RUC's successor, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, prior to the appointment of Sir Hugh Orde in May 2002.
Gamble was among six candidates shortlisted to succeed Sir Hugh Orde as Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable.
The majority of officers serving in "regular" British Police forces do not routinely carry firearms, with the three exceptions being the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, Ministry of Defence Police and Police Service of Northern Ireland.
In June 2008, the Police Service of Northern Ireland Historical Enquiries Team published its findings on the case.
Matt Baggott (born 1959), Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland