Ms Lois West:

Yes; I was not happy at all. As Ms Galligan said in her presentation, it was during the course of the public meeting of the Policing Authority on 27 April 2017 that we learned of the existence of such a report. To this day, I am not clear if that report or a very refined version of it was sent to the Policing Authority. Ms Galligan's expertise and background are clear from her presentation and I felt it was an insult to the work she had done. Also, as her line manager, I have a duty of care towards her and felt that it was incumbent on me to give a full and robust response to the report. As I said, we only came into possession of it on 8 May 2017 and at the time we asked that we be given additional time to go through it in detail. We also needed to revisit the original 87 page report Ms Galligan had submitted in November 2016 and compare and contrast the findings on the 41 cases.