Transcript of an interview with Ronnie Flanagan, Chief Constable of the PSNI, by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 4 November 2001. On that date the RUC was replaced by a new policing body entitled the PSNI. Flanagan outlines the structure of the new organisation and his hopes for the future of policing in Northern Ireland. Breakfast with Frost was a weekly BBC current affairs programme.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 04 November 2001
Name of First Interviewee: Ronnie Flanagan
Role at time of Interview: Chief Constable of the PSNI
Interviewer: David Frost
Purpose: News
Media: Transcript
Copyright: © BBC Breakfast with Frost
Link: Read the transcript
Programme/Book/Article: BBC Breakfast with Frost
Time Period covered: 2001
Key Individuals: Ronnie Flanagan
Key Words: RUC, PSNI, Sinn Féin, decommissioning, Provisional IRA, religion, An Garda Siochána, policing, Real IRA, Birmingham