Hugh Orde

FORMER PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde has described how the setting up of the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) in Northern Ireland was "the only original idea I have ever had in policing".

Former PSNI chief constable Sir Hugh Orde made his comments as he delivered a lecture at Ulster University in Belfast.

FORMER PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde has warned there is a "real risk" that the threat from dissident republicans will increase while police numbers in the Northern Ireland are at a level he describes as "dangerous".

THREE weeks from now the public consultation into dealing with legacy issues will close and given the absence of devolution it is likely that the ‘solution’ to 20 years of failure will be imposed from Westminster.

There are many remarkable stories woven through the Irish peace process – peace itself and its durability is the obvious one.

There can be occasions when the life of an individual becomes tightly entwined with the history of a country and there can be no doubt that the story of Martin McGuinness, who died early yesterday at the age of 66, entered such a category.

A BOOK on the Omagh bombing written by former police chief constable Hugh Orde and ex-Policing Board chairman Desmond Rea is to be launched on Tuesday.

FORMER police chiefs have warned quitting the European Union will make Britain less safe and urged voters not to "gamble with our security".

WITH just three weeks to go until the UK votes on staying or leaving the European Union, Theresa Villiers has failed to produce a convincing case that border controls would not appear on this island in the event of a Brexit.

FORMER police chief Hugh Orde has launched a stinging attack on Theresa Villiers accusing the Northern Ireland secretary of state of having "her head firmly stuck in a peat bog" on border control.