Pictures of the police and army in Northern Ireland

Northern Irelands Security Images

There still remains a high police and army presence in Northern Ireland, although daunting for a first time visitor to Northern Ireland you soon get used to them. The peace process have seen a reduction in police and army numbers and even a name change for the police from the RUC to PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland.) The old grey armored police jeeps have now been painted white to be less intimidating, still a powerful sight though with old battle scars still visible. The British army still have a large presence here and can be seen quite often in the greater Belfast areas patrolling with their new style army jeep, a huge and ugly heavily armored vehicle.

The police and army camps in Northern Ireland still remain relatively unchanged since the days of the troubles. These are like huge heavily fortified medieval castles, with watch towers at the gates and each corner. These are a terrific sight and a visible reminder of Northern Ireland's termoil past. Most police stations have been subjected to terrorist attacks in the past..

Below are some pictures of the police and army in Northern Ireland with their armored vehicles and their heavily armored bases. It is not recommended you take photographs of the military without their permission while in Northern Ireland


This is the old style armoured police vehicle which was a common sight in Northern Ireland during the troubles	The new image of the police now sees a more high visible image with the old grey Landrovers painted white. They are still heavily armoured.

This is a typical police station, heavily fortified and with watch towers. The steel grills around the outside of the watch tower was in-case of a mortar bomb attack ar similar	Again this is a typical watch tower at an army base, this would be used more for surveillance

This is a picture of British army armored vehicles on patrol in Northern Ireland. You often see these when there is street disturbances in Belfast and other areas.	A sinister part of Northern Ireland is the IRA, although on ceasefire they are said to have been active by training, spying and carrying out punishment attacks. They still remain (together with the LVF) the only group to decommission some of their illegal weapons. In the above picture the IRA are about to launch a rocket with this home made RPG. These home made weapons are as deadly as the manufactured models.

Here the British army are patroling the South Armagh area of Northern Ireland. Ten years after the IRA called a ceasefire its still unsafe in this area.	Northern Ireland still has its fair share of street disorder. This picture shows a Catholic youth in North Belfast displaying complete disregard for the police.