when gerry adams (the sinn féin president) was wounded in an assassination attempt by three members of the uff it was an off-duty full-time non-commissioned officer of 10 udr who gave chase to their car and arrested them, assisted by an off-duty policeman. this is not noted in adams' sinn féin biography and the bbc still insists the assailants were arrested by "plain clothes policemen". the udr nco received the queen's gallantry medal for arresting the gunmen. in the long term however the soldier was intimidated out of his home and the udr as a direct result of these arrests.