Continuing Influence
Since disbandment the USC has assumed a place of "almost mythic proportions" within Unionist folklore, whereas in the Nationalist community they are still reviled as the Protestant only, armed wing of the Unionist government "associated with the worst examples of unfair treatment of Catholics in Northern Ireland by the police force". An Orange lodge, was formed to commemorate the disbandment of the force called "Ulster Special Constabulary LOL No 1970"
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