Editing Northern Ireland peace process (section)

===Implementation===
*The Northern Ireland Assembly made a good start. However, it was suspended several times mainly because of unionist anger at the IRA's refusal to decommission their weapons "transparently". Elections carried on nonetheless and voting polarised towards the more radical parties – the DUP and Sinn Féin. In 2004, negotiations were held to attempt to re-establish the Assembly and the Executive. These negotiations failed but the governments believed they were very close to a deal and published their proposed deal as the [[Comprehensive Agreement]]. 
*Although the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]] was renamed as the [[Police Service of Northern Ireland]] on 4 November 2001, Sinn Féin, the second-largest party, did not declare its acceptance of the Police Service of Northern Ireland until 28 January 2007 as part of the [[St Andrews Agreement]]. A 2005 survey [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027233045/http://www.nio.gov.uk/media-detail.htm?newsID=11759] indicates that 83% of the Northern Ireland population have "some", "a lot", or "total" confidence in the police's ability to provide a day-to-day policing service.
*No IRA weapons were decommissioned until October 2001, and the final consignment to be "put beyond use" was announced on 26 September 2005. There has also been allegations of IRA involvement in espionage at the [[Parliament Buildings (Northern Ireland)|Stormont]] Assembly (which prompted the UUP to collapse the Assembly), in training the [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia]] (FARC) guerillas, in several high-profile murders, and allegations of major robberies such as that of approximately £1 million of goods from a wholesaler and in excess of £26 million in the [[Northern Bank robbery]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/oct/09/northernbankrobbery.background|author=Glendinning, Lee|work=[[The Guardian]]|title=Northern Bank robbery: The crime that nearly ended the peace process|date=9 October 2008|access-date=22 October 2019|archive-date=30 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930220248/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/oct/09/northernbankrobbery.background|url-status=live}}</ref>