Deputy chief constable, Lancashire constabulary.
The secretary of the South Yorkshire police federation branch, constable Paul Middup, according to the minutes cited by the panel, told the restaurant meeting before Wright turned up: "The chief constable had said the truth could not come from him, but had given the secretary a totally free hand and supported him," as had many senior officers.
A fourth defendant in the case has been identified as Sheikh Mohammad Adeel, a constable with a special branch of the Karachi police force that holds responsibility for counterterrorism.
Here you can consider the debt of the little-known French painter Narcisse Diaz to Constable in the pairing of Diaz's blunt little storm scene with Constable's grander but overcast "Branch Hill Pond", shown at the Royal Academy in 1825.
He said the two co-defendants - Sheikh Mohammed Adeel, a constable with the police department's special branch, and Mr Naseem's cousin, Salman Saqib - have not confessed to any crime and will not do so.
RUC chief constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan dismisses the allegations about special branch as "an outrageous untruth".
The chief constable wrote to the chairman of the Essex branch of the Magistrates Associationn, saying how "startled" and "most alarmed" he was, and also had case files sent to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Mike Cunningham, chief constable of Staffordshire Police, said "a root and branch" review, examining shift patterns, call handling, dispatch and investigation processes, was required and there had to be a "relationship of trust between police and local communities".
Before September 11 some chief constables were reducing the size of their local special branches, but since then the numbers have risen to their latest total of 4,247, with an increasing role played by civilian staff as intelligence analysts.
Flanagan was a former Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and head of its Special Branch in Northern Ireland during the British state's war against the IRA.
At a meeting attended by the commander of Special Branch in Manchester, a GMP assistant chief constable and a "senior officer" from the Royal Ulster Constabulary, it was decided, for reasons never made public, not to present the findings of the investigation to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); the body responsible for undertaking criminal prosecutions in England.
