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Royal Irish Constabulary
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Royal Irish Constabulary
The
Royal Irish Constabulary
(
RIC
,
Irish
:
Constáblacht Ríoga na hÉireann
) was the armed police force of the United Kingdom in Ireland from the early nineteenth century until 1922. A separate civic police force, the unarmed
Dublin Metropolitan Police
controlled the capital, and the cities of
Derry
and
Belfast
, originally with their own police forces, later had special divisions within the RIC. About seventy-five percent of the RIC were
Roman Catholic
and about twenty-five percent were of various
Protestant
denominations, the Catholics mainly constables and the Protestants officers. The RIC's successful system of policing influenced the armed Canadian
North-West Mounted Police
(predecessor of the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
), the armed
Victoria Police
force in Australia, and the armed
Royal Newfoundland Constabulary
in
Newfoundland
. In consequence of the
Anglo-Irish Treaty
, the RIC was disbanded in 1922 and was replaced by the
Garda Síochána
in the
Irish Free State
and the
Royal Ulster Constabulary
in
Northern Ireland
.
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