George Hamilton addresses the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at the House of Commons on Wednesday. Photograph: UK Parliament/PA
Loyalist paramilitaries were often behaving as “community workers by day and terrorists by night”, former Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) chief constable George Hamilton has told a Westminster committee.
Mr Hamilton, who led the PSNI from 2014 to 2019, said loyalist communities must be empowered to resist the influence of paramilitaries in their neighbourhoods who ruled by fear and intimidation.
Though supportive, Mr Hamilton and his predecessor Hugh Orde r
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