Its members, nicknamed the Bulkies, had authority within the Belfast Police District.
[7] The RIC had 70 men stationed in Belfast at the beginning of the August 1864 riots, with 800 reinforcements arriving over the next two weeks.
[10] Most of the Belfast Borough Police force were Protestants, and many local Roman Catholics regarded it as sectarian.
An 1864 royal commission[11] of inquiry examined the Belfast magistrate and police district, after serious communal rioting that year.
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