Sir Kenneth Newman obituary

Head of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and commissioner of the Metropolitan police who brought in radical reformsFew police chiefs have had a greater impact on the way policing is conducted in the UK than Sir Kenneth Newman, who has died aged 90. As the head of the Royal Ulster Constabulary during some of the bloodiest years of the Troubles and as commissioner of the Metropolitan police at the time of the Broadwater Farm riots, he was no stranger to controversy but also managed to introduce radic