HC Deb 21 June 1990 vol 174 c693W
39. Mr. Alex Carlile

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he has any plans to hold a judicial inquiry into the allegations of a shoot-to-kill policy by the Royal Ulster Constabulary; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Cope

These allegations have already been the subject of an exhaustive inquiry led first by John Stalker, deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester police and then by Colin Sampson, chief constable of West Yorkshire whose report was considered in full by the DPP(NI). There is not, and never has been, a so-called shoot-to-kill policy and I see no justification for a further inquiry.

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