James Flanagan (RUC)

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Sir James Bernard Flanagan, KBE (15 January 1914–1999) was the first and only Roman Catholic Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. There was a Roman Catholic Deputy Chief Constable, Michael McAtamney. Jamie Flanagan was no relation to another, far more famous, Chief Constable, Ronnie Flanagan.

Flanagan was was born in Derry. He replaced Graham Shillington as the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) on 1 November 1973.

His tenure (and his own life) were marked by a PIRA assassination attempt via a bomb placed on an airplane on the day he was known to be travelling as per J. Bowyer Bell's The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence, 1967-1992 (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Call #: DA990.U46 B296 1993/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993). Fortunately the attempt failed.

He died in 1999, aged 85.

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