put security policy on a more logical and rational basis, and along with the Chief Constable of the RUC, Englishman Kenneth Newman they produced the often controversial strategies of "criminalisation" and Ulsterisation. These policies would later be extended by Roy Mason, and would include the use of the Special Air Service on the Irish border. Result Ulsterisation brought about striking changes in the casualty patterns, with military/police casualties from Northern Ireland exceeding those from Britain for the rest of the conflict, reversing the previous pattern. A related strategy, 'Criminalisation', was meant to avoid any acknowledgement of the political motivation and nature of the conflict and was partly motivated to change perceptions of the conflict from a colonial war to that of a campaign against criminal gangs. It was judged that the political impact in Britain of killings of British soldiers by the Provisional Irish Republican Army was greater than the deaths of local security forces members. The drop in the number of non-UDR British Army casualties by 1976 helped prevent any build-up of sentiment in Britain for a withdrawal from Northern Ireland. References External links NI Conflict Archive on the Internet, extracts from Paisley by Ed Moloney and Andy Pollak "Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern Ireland: Resistance, Management, and release" Kieran McEvoy 2000 History of Northern Ireland The Troubles (Northern Ireland) 1976 in Northern Ireland