 The Hunt Report on the future of policing in Northern Ireland was presented to the <unk> cabinet in early October . Jim <unk> held talks with the cabinet in Belfast on 10 October , following which the report 's recommendations were accepted and made public . They included the recommendation that the <unk> should be ' ordinarily ' unarmed , and that the B @-@ <unk> should be phased out and replaced by a new force . The new <unk> Chief Constable , Arthur Young , an <unk> , was announced , and travelled to Belfast with <unk> . The same day , <unk> <unk> announced that the <unk> was to be dissolved . On 11 October <unk> and Young visited Free Derry , and on 12 October the first military police entered the <unk> , on foot and unarmed . 
