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Inquiry Report accuses Chief Minister of improper attempts to interfere in a criminal investigation

The former Commissioner of Police, Ian McGrail retired early for a number of reasons, importantly the fact that he felt unfairly and unlawfully compelled to do so because neither the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, the then Interim Governor, Nick Pyle or the Police Authority had followed proper procedures. This is one conclusion in a 700 page report by the Inquiry’s Chairman, Sir Peter Openshaw, published today. The Chairman makes clear his belief that the Chief Minister’s reasons for wanting Mr McGrail’s dismissal related to the Police investigation into Hassan’s Senior Partner James Levy, then a suspect in relation to Operation Delhi.  The report accuses Fabian Picardo of “crossing the line” and of grossly improper attempts to interfere in an active criminal investigation to protect his friend and mentor. It also accuses the Chief Minister of having misled the Police Authority and says the GPA should have carried out its own investigations. Sir Peter Openshaw agrees that the fact that the GPA had already decided to exercise the power under section 34 of the Police Act, before asking Mr McGrail for his representations was “plainly unlawful.” He makes the point that the flaws in the process adopted by the GPA do “not in any way supercede or excuse what I have found to be misconduct on the part of Mr Picardo." The report finds Nick Pyle sincerely held the view the RGP needed new leadership, adding it was an entirely reasonable conclusion to reach in the circumstances of the Incident at Sea, a collision outside British Territorial Waters involving an RGP vessel and resulting in two deaths, and the ‘very damning’HMIC Report of the RGP.  In fact the Chairman believes Mr McGrail was fortunate that no calls were made for his removal at the time of the report’s publication. On the Incident at Sea it finds Ian McGrail did not provide Mr Pyle with the best available information and therefore did not properly discharge the duty he owed him as Interim Governor.  However, the Chairman says he’s not satisfied that Mr McGrail should be accountable if the Incident at Sea resulted from aberrant officers acting on their own, contrary to operating procedures.