"The best George Cross the RUC could receive would be the burial of the Patten report on policing," the Rev Ian Paisley told several hundred people in the Ulster Hall last night.
Dr Paisley expressed concern over whether the award was "simply the prelude to the implementation of the Patten report's guillotine of the whole force".
Speaking at the last in a series of rallies billed as "In defence of the RUC", the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party said: "The report is an indictment of the RUC designed to reward and elevate terrorists."
He dismissed the Patten commission proposals on the future of policing, claiming they were "politically motivated, republican in character, calamitous to policing and prejudicial to the safety and security of law-abiding citizens".
Dr Paisley claimed the report was rejected by those people in Northern Ireland who were "not prepared to have a police force infiltrated, motivated and dictated by the objectives of republican terrorism".
He warned of the consequences if Northern unionists backed the review of the Belfast Agreement at the Ulster Unionist Party council meeting this Saturday.
However, he refused to be drawn on his party's plan of action should the proposals be accepted.
In a scathing attack on the British government, Dr Paisley said the Patten report represented "the ultimate corruption by the government of the United Kingdom of integrity and the rule of law".
Earlier, he led a Democratic Unionist Party delegation to meet the head of the Decommissioning Commission, Gen John de Chastelain, in an effort, he said, to clarify the general's powers and standing on the implementation of his report on arms decommissioning.
Speaking after the meeting, Dr Paisley said his delegation had put a number of questions to Gen de Chastelain. From his answers they were able to deduce there "was no timetable, no calendar, and that the head of the decommissioning body had no more power than he ever had".
He also said Gen de Chastelain had made it perfectly clear that decommissioning was a voluntary action.
Dr Paisley claimed the people of Northern Ireland were being "misled by the hypocrisy of the North's Secretary of State, Mr Peter Mandelson". He said: "The IRA hold the ring and they are in full control of it."
Dr Paisley told the rally that the real issue was to deal with the Patten report, "which is tied into getting the IRA into the Belfast Agreement".
Dr Paisley said his party agreed with only three of the 175 proposals in the Patten report on policing in the North, and although this was the final rally those involved would not give up the fight.