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B Special

British  

noun

  1. a member of a part-time largely Protestant police force formerly functioning in Northern Ireland

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Additionally, an investigation into the composition of the regular and B Special police would be headed by Lord John Hunt, leader of the mountain-climbing team that first scaled Mt.

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