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  Press Statements

SIR HUGH ORDE

10 September 2005

The Belfast County Grand Orange Lodge and Belfast Orange District No 9 issued the following joint statement:

"Following today's brutal and heavy-handed police action against Orangemen and members of the wider unionist family in Belfast, it is perhaps not surprising that Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde is giving media interviews seeking to excuse the actions of his officers.

While the Orange Order has noted the Chief Constable's intemperate, inflammatory and inaccurate remarks, we have decided to take a more responsible line and will not be drawn into a similar knee-jerk reaction. Accordingly the Order will be giving no media interviews until it has had time to evaluate the evidence of what happened on the streets of Belfast today. At this stage, all we would say is that if what we saw today was policing, it was policing at its worst. "

 

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