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	Statewatch News online: UK: Special Branch Guidelines 1995
		A large number of Special Branch officers are assigned to work at ports and airports as part of their counter-terrorist duties, `Their task is to seek and gather information, [and] identify persons of interest...' (paras.7 and 8).
		Special Branches will continue to be involved in gathering and exploiting intelligence relating to covert or illegal attempts to gather information and material of assistance to another State (para.11).
		One change in the organisation of the Special Branch since the 1984 Guidelines is the creation of the Regional Special Branch Conference chaired by a Chief Constable (using the mutual aid provisions under the Police Act 1964 and the Police (Scotland) Act 1967) (para.17).
	www.statewatch.org /news/2004/mar/special-branch-1995.htm (1002 words)

	Special Branch to track Muslims across UK
		Special intelligence units are being planned across Britain to monitor Muslims so the authorities can collect "community by community" knowledge of where extremism is building up.
		The Guardian has learned that the special squads, to be known as Muslim Contact Units and staffed by Special Branch officers, will be established in areas including Yorkshire, north-west England and parts of the Midlands.
		The establishment of the special units is one of the first concrete counter-terrorist measure to emerge after the London bombings.
	www.infowars.com /articles/ps/uk_special_branch_track_muslims_across_the_uk.htm (750 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		The Special Branch has a history no one would like to be linked with, and it is small surprise that NSIS wants no association with the past.
		The so-called Special Branch was specially formed in 1952 as a colonial apparatus to suppress the Mau Mau freedom struggle.
		Since the establishment of the police in Kenya in 1896, the three major divisions of the force (CID, Special Branch and the regular police) have served as parts of the same institution.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/031099/News/News0.html (859 words)

	United States Special Operations Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When Special Operations Forces (SOF) of different branches are used for the same operation, USSOCOM acts as the Joint Command Center (JCC) of all the forces used in the operation.
		The Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) is in charge of the different SOF of the U.S. Air Force.
		The U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) is in charge of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the U.S. Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Special_Operations_Command (955 words)

	IOL: Special branch 'failed to pass on Omagh tip-off' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Special Branch failed to alert senior police officers about a threatened terrorist strike to take place in Omagh on the day of the atrocity, it emerged tonight.
		It will be seriously critical of the Special Branch’s role, and also confirm significant shortcomings in the investigation into the worst single outrage in the 30 years of bloodshed.
		The alleged failure by the Special Branch to inform senior commanders of a warning of an attack to take place in Omagh on the day the Real IRA set off the car bomb which also injured over 200 people is likely to be one of the most damaging disclosures.
	breaking.tcm.ie /iol/today/story.asp?j=18785620&p=y8786zxx&n=18786229 (554 words)

	Sinn Féin: Lifting the stone - the unaccountable nature of the Special Branch
		Not surprisingly then, the Special Branch, with the support of Ronnie Flanagan, as a pre-emptive damage limitation exercise, attempted to undermine the Ombudsman through personal attacks on her office in advance of the publication of her report.
		More specifically, she identified Special Branch denial of the existence of highly significant documents relating to intelligence issues; the withholding of access to identifiable documents; misleading Special Branch information to the Ombudsman inquiry; and the existence of a number of missing intelligence files.
		Special Branch corruption is an inevitable outcome in the presence of absolute power - the power over life and death in many cases - and in the absence of credible accountability measures.
	www.sinnfein.ie /peace/document/37 (1300 words)

	Statewatch News online: Northern Ireland - Inside Castlereagh: Files stolen from Special Branch HQ
		Inside Castlereagh: Files stolen from Special Branch HQ On 14 June the Guardian published a front-page story on a report being prepared by Sir John Stevens, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London, on policing and undercover units in Northern Ireland.
		Stalker was highly critical of the role of the Special Branch in Northern Ireland and described it as "a force-within-a-force".
		The latest complaint comes from a group of officers at inspector level who say that Special Branch are taking advantage of the unusual number of vacancies at superintendent level to move their people into senior positions (Irish News 20 March 2002).
	www.statewatch.org /news/2002/jun/09ni.htm (5544 words)

	Special Parent Information Network
		The Department of Education provides special education and related services to children, age 3 to 20, who meet the eligibility requirements due to a disability that affects their educational success.
		Special Education is specially designed instruction to meet the unique learning needs of students who required Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).
		Both the Special Education Branch and the Student Support Services Branch fall under the Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Student Support which is responsible for instruction to all of Hawaii's public school students.
	www.spinhawaii.org /Resources/doeresources.html (350 words)

	About Us - Special Branch
		Special Branch deals with any matters arising within Essex which may involve any form of subversive activity, such as terrorism, which may affect either life or property within Essex.
		The air and seaports are specific areas where Special Branch officers operate to ensure that those involved in internal and/or external acts of terrorism are prevented from entering or leaving the country.
		Special Branch also maintains close contacts with other police services, both within the United Kingdom and abroad, to exchange information on persons who are known or believed to be involved in terrorist activity.
	www.essex.police.uk /about/a_dp_23.php (250 words)

	Sunday Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Special Branch had made sure the second meeting with Barrett took place at exactly the same lay-by, and insisted that neither my CID colleague nor myself question him about Pat Finucane's murder.
		On the other hand, Special Branch wasted no time in letting me know they had nothing to fear from what I had told the Stevens team.
		Another Special Branch officer, who had a long history of fighting with me, actually threatened to have guns planted in the roofspace of my home.
	www.sundaylife.co.uk /news/story.jsp?story=666295 (1230 words)

	PFBC Fishing Special Regulation Areas
		Clarion River -Catch and Release All-Tackle- 8.5 miles; From the confluence of the East and West branches downstream to the confluence with Elk Creek.
		Delaware River, West Branch - Miscellaneous Special Regulations - From the Pennsylvania/New York border downstream to the confluence with the East Branch of the Delaware River.
		Codorus Creek - Trophy Trout - 2.0 miles; From the confluence with the West Branch of Codorus Creek downstream to a point that is 0.4 miles downstream from SR 3082 (Porters Road).
	sites.state.pa.us /Fish/specreg.htm (3901 words)

	SFU Library - Special Collections and Rare Books
		SFU Library Special Collections and Rare Books has in-depth holdings in twentieth century avant-garde literature, a major William Wordsworth collection, significant and expanding collections of BC publishing materials, British Columbia literary, social, and political materials, and editorial cartoons.
		Special Collections and Rare Books will continue to provide resources for the increasing needs of the research community.
		SFU Special Collections and Rare Books is located in Room 7100 of the WAC Bennett Library on the Burnaby Campus.
	www.lib.sfu.ca /about/collections/specificcollections/specialcollections/spcl.htm (236 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| End of the road for Special Branch
		Special Branch, the famed and feared police squad formed 120 years ago to combat extremism, is to lose its elite status following the creation of a new 2000-strong unit geared to fighting terrorism.
		Sources at Scotland Yard said the move was planned before the bombing atrocities in London in July but that the resolve to go ahead was strengthened by the extent to which Special Branch, the Anti Terrorist Squad and MI5 worked together in the aftermath of the attacks.
		Special Branch was formed in 1883 as the Metropolitan police Special Irish Branch to combat "Fenian" terrorism.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /terrorism/story/0,15935,1566088,00.html (714 words)

	Sponsoring A 'Terrorist Scare': New South Wales Police Special Branch And Neo-Nazis Manufactured Olympic Games Threat
		The Special Branch officer mentioned in Lunn's text, Ireland, had served in Special Branch in 1988-91, at times when the interest of this corrupt unit was focused upon nationalist activists in Sydney.
		It told the untutored reader that there were threats to the Olympic Games; these threats could involve neo-nazis; a number of rightists were similar to the neo-nazis in their predisposition for violence; the Special Branch and ASIO were aware of these threats and were active against them.
		The sort of nonsense paraded by Special Branch in 1995 may not be repeated.
	home.alphalink.com.au /~radnat/kangarooreich/partseven.html (1742 words)

	A series of articles on the reorganisation of PSNI Special Branch, renamed C3 and the role of REMIT
		Operation Torsion was a Special Branch exercise that lasted many months and that culminated, on October 4, 2002, in a high-profile raid of Sinn Féin's Stormont offices, and raids and arrests at local homes.
		The party suggests that the Special Branch is primarily interested in policing, while the spooks are primarily interested in politics.
		In his report the Oversight Commissioner found that Special Branch's staffing levels have only reduced by 17 per cent in the last five years - a figure which contrasts starkly with claims by some members of the Policing Board that Special Branch is down by 50 per cent.
	www.serve.com /pfc/policing/kearney.html (4404 words)

	Irish Times Article - PSNI protects Special Branch families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Security for the families of 250 Special Branch officers was stepped up this week as the PSNI become further convinced that details of their identities have fallen into the hands of the IRA.
		The raiders are understood to have asked for a file which held a notebook with the names, codenames and addresses of all 250 Special Branch officers, and the codenames of their contacts.
		Initial suspicions that the raid was carried out by either rogue police or military led the PSNI to only issue a "level three" security directive to the Special Branch officers whose names were in the notebook.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2002/0406/1604098447HM1IRA.html (311 words)

	Strathclyde Police - Special Branch
		Special Branch, working in partnership with internal and external partners, has a key role in protecting communities and maintaining order.
		To do this, Special Branch collates, assesses and disseminates intelligence related to terrorism, espionage, subversion, counter-proliferation, serious crime and threats posed to public order.
		Through the development and exploitation of intelligence, Special Branch assists the Security Service to carry out its statutory duty under the Security Service Acts of 1989 and 1996.
	www.strathclyde.police.uk /index.asp?locID=858&docID=-1 (186 words)

	GLOBE-INTEL.NET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They regard the present make-up of the Branch as one of the obstacles to the peace process and a constant reminder of an organisation that played a critical role in the undercover war.
		The bigger worry for MI5 is that a sudden overhaul of Special Branch which could mean removing officers who played a key role in the undercover war and creating a batch of whistleblowers.
		In the meantime, MI5 is trying to establish who in Special Branch is most likely to blow the whistle on the secret war if the planned restructuring of the organisation goes ahead.
	www.gordonthomas.ie /143.html (1054 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Spooks, spies, and Special Branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of those arrested for spying at Stormont was a British agent who worked for the RUC Special Branch and British military intelligence for nearly three decades and was a senior member of Sinn Féin.
		This action by the Special Branch could only have been designed to split Republicans and sow maximum suspicion and division within their ranks.
		The outing of Donaldson was quickly followed by more visits to the homes of senior republicans to inform them that their life was in danger from the IRA for spying for the British and the RUC Special Branch.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/2590/1/145 (1217 words)

	Surprise? What Surprise? - RUC Special Branch- RUC and British Army collusion in murder in northern Ireland. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The RUC's Special Branch have been to the forefront of the British government's war against republicans and nationalists for thirty years yet none of them have served a day behind bars and few of them have been killed or tortured in the course of the war.
		What of course is at the heart of this latest controversy is why the Special Branch behaved as they did when they had two prior warnings that at a minimum 'something' of a violent nature was being prepared for Omagh town on the 15th August 1998.
		The Special Branch let it be known publicly that a British soldier had raped the doctor's wife, and that Ervine's comments were 'sour grapes' because nothing happened to the rapist.
	www.relativesforjustice.com /publications/surprise.htm (1607 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Documents show how Special Branch infiltrated Anti-Apartheid Movement
		Special Branch and MI5 argued that the surveillance was justified because such organisations contained dangerous Trotskyists and communists.
		Special Branch checked each member of the committee and concluded that "13 of the new 30-member executive therefore belong to either the South African Communist party or the Communist Party of Great Britain".
		A sergeant in Special Branch reported that "a total of seven people attended the meeting" of the group in Croydon, south London, on May 27 1982.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /foi/story/0,9061,1579177,00.html (482 words)

	Irish Northern Aid, Inc./Special Branch implcated in murders; new IMC report
		According to the Irish News, six Special Branch officers have been implicated by Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan in the cover-up of more than a dozen UVF murders.
		A spokesman for Mrs O'Loan's office confirmed that she has passed an interim report to the Director for Public Prosecutions (DPP) in relation to a number of murders by a UVF informer between 1993 and 2000.
		It is also understood that a UVF man and one of his Special Branch handlers will be named in relation to a UVF bomb attack on Sinn Féin offices in Monaghan town in March 1997.
	www.inac.org /action/alert/104 (856 words)

	Ex-CID officer: Special Branch muddied probe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brown claims the Special Branch officer, citing the killer's informant value, then blocked his attempt to obtain a second ``controlled'' confession that would have stood up in court.
		``Special Branch, in a nutshell, was driving the violence,'' he said.
		Stobie had accused Special Branch both of ignoring his two tipoffs - on the night of Finucane's murder - that a top Catholic was about to be killed, and of doing nothing when he subsequently gave them the killer's names.
	www.serve.com /pfc/pf/pf18012002.html (628 words)

	Special Collections Library - Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System – City of Albuquerque
		There are partial censuses for New Mexico from the Spanish and Mexican periods and special censuses for Native Americans of the Southwest, including the Dawes Rolls from Oklahoma.
		Special files include archival materials on Ernie Pyle and Professor Dorothy Cline, and a centennial history of the Albuquerque Public Library.
		Special Collections also houses the Center for the Book, a hands-on museum of the history of books, writing and printing.
	www.cabq.gov /library/specol.html (756 words)

	Press Articles - Special Branch Help McDonald's
		Nicholson told th court the only collaboration with Special Branch he was aware of occured in 1989 but evidence suggests the liaison has continued since.
		Some of it we have, other bits are new." Nicholson stated in court that he had "quite a lot of experience with Special Branch officers", but that his first contact with them in relation to London Greenpeace had taken place at a meeting at McDonald's HQ in September 1989.
		Meanwhile collaboration between Special Branch and multinational corporations undoubtedly continue, with seriously dire consequences for democratic voic in a world increasingly dominated by such huge commercial leviathans.
	www.mcspotlight.org /media/press/squall_aut96.html (1181 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Special Branch link to Omagh atrocity
		The Special Branch officer is to be asked if he made the call, and if so, why.
		In the call, he named those who he claimed would be bringing across the Irish border four dismantled AK-47 rifles and two rocket launchers belonging to the Continuity IRA which, he said, would be used in an attack on police in Omagh on August 15.
		However, one of the officers asked that he be present in the Special Branch office in Omagh the next day for the second call.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1379578,00.html (807 words)

	Hilton Bombing
		The New South Wales Special Branch was assigned the task of finding those responsible.
		Seven years later they were freed after a special Inquiry found that a serious doubt surrounded their conviction.
		Many people, included policemen and army men, believe ASIO and Special Branch were the most likely to be responsible for the bombing.No one claimed responsibility for the bombing and the only ones to benefit were the security forces.
	members.tripod.com /~Hilton_Bombing (455 words)

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