Former RUC chief Flanagan urged to step down
The position of former RUC chief constable Ronnie Flanagan is coming under the spotlight following yesterday's report on collusion with loyalist paramilitaries.
Mr Flanagan was head of the RUC at the time when his Special Branch officers protected a loyalist gang responsible for up to 15 murders because its leader and other members were police informers.
He is currently Britain's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, which means he is responsible for overseeing policing standards across the country.
Sinn Féin and the SDLP are both demanding that he resign from his new job in light of yesterday's report.
The father of Raymond McCord, one of the victims of the UVF unit at the centre of the Police Ombudsman's report, is also demanding that he step down.
"If he's trying to tell us he didn't know what was going on, he was a very poor chief constable and he shouldn't be in the position he's in now," Raymond McCord snr says.
"If he did know what was going on, charges should be brought against him and he should be stripped of his knighthood."
