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Patten police redundancy bill hits 拢500m

The Patten redundancy scheme for police officers will come to an end in 10 weeks time, it has cost almost 500 million pounds. The scheme was a part of the Good Friday Agreement and was aimed at persuading Protestant officers to retire, opening the way for more Catholic recruits to the new PSNI.
It achieved that goal - but as our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney exclusively reports, at huge financial cost.

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