He headed the racial and violent crimes task force.
After the sighting, the FBI's multiagency violent fugitive task force in Boston and inspectors from New Scotland Yard scoured London hotels, Internet cafes and gyms in search of Bulger.
The relatives of Harold (Errol) and Jason McGowan, found hanged within six months of each other, today met the head of the Metropolitan police's racial and violent crime task force at Scotland Yard.
Salazar was being pursued by officials working for the Gulf Coast violent offenders task force on charges of robbery and assault when he was shot dead in February, according to the Harris County sheriff's office.
It will take the Met "years and years, rather than months and months", she said, for it to be in a position where the diversity unit, which includes the racial and violent crimes task force, is no longer needed.
Bates said he meant to use a stun gun instead of a gun during the incident, which occurred during an undercover operation by the violent crimes task force into the illegal sale of firearms on 2 April.
The Special Branch commander, Colin Black, said in a note that same month that he knew an officer in the Racial and Violent Crime Task Force was receiving "off the record" briefings from the undercover police, but that "it was essential that knowledge of the operation went no further" and that he did not want his officer to receive anything on paper.
Updated at 11.40am GMT 11.38am GMT More on the information passed to the police by the undercover officer from Robert Booth: In records of the intelligence passed to the Met's Racial and Violent Crime Task Force from 28 September 1998 onwards, Ellison found "personal details relating to Mr and Mrs Lawrence" provided by the undercover officer known as N81.
If concerns about money don't explain why a 73-year-old was assisting on the Violent Crimes Task Force, politics might.
All of them are equipped to carry both Tasers and guns, and Bates was assisting with the Violent Crimes Task Force on the day of the incident.
