Hugh Orde
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"Sir Hugh Stephen Roden Orde", Order of the British Empire/OBE, Queen's Police Medal/QPM is the President of the Association of Chief Police Officers, representing the 44 police forces of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Between 2002 and 2009 he was the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).

Sir Hugh joined London's Metropolitan Police Service in 1977. He rose quickly through the ranks, becoming Superintendent in the Territorial Support Group. Later, as Commander responsible for the service's Community Safety and Partnership section, Orde took part in the latter phase of the enquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence and its subsequent handling by the police.

Later Orde (by then a Deputy assistant commissioner/Deputy Assistant Commissioner) was assigned to the senior staff of the Stevens Report which investigated government collusion in sectarian killings in Northern Ireland. He was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Order of the British Empire/OBE) in 2001 and was knighted for his services to policing in 2005. In 2010 he was awarded a Queen's Police Medal.

Hugh Orde was appointed Chief Constable of the PSNI (which replaced the Royal Ulster Constabulary) on 29 May 2002, taking over from Acting Chief Constable Colin Cramphorn.

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I would not have made that statement without having spent a great deal of time speaking to my senior detectives and my senior analysts.

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Officers were shot at last night. We are very lucky we do not have dead officers this morning.

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[The North is the only jurisdiction in the world where all complaints against police are independently investigated. She has a] robust relationship ... He mightn't always like what I say, and I'm not always enamoured of him, but he makes himself available to me. He never hides.

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Attacked with missiles, petrol bombs, blast bombs, and pipe bombs. They have been shot at.

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The Orange Order must bear substantial responsibility for this. They publicly called people on to the streets. I think if you do that, you cannot then abdicate responsibility.

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We are very lucky we do not have dead officers this morning. It's a tribute to the way they responded and it's a tribute to their tactics.

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It is important to remember that this was not across the province. It was isolated. Most of Northern Ireland got on with its life untroubled by these very serious issues.

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We are in control of the situation.

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