UDR came to be seen as carbon copy of Protestant-only B-Specials
Steven McCaffery, Irish News | 02 May 2006
THE discredited 'B Specials', an exclusively Protestant part-time police reserve, was abolished in 1969 following its role in the violence of that watershed year. In 1970 the Ulster Defence Regiment was formed to replace it and would become the largest regiment in the British army. The UDR was to...