Ms Lois West:

The pressure to do so came on at a couple of meetings that occurred at the time. We understood there was to be a meeting on 10 May. Our management was to be present, plus members of the PDIM group who had been part of the review team with us. They were very tense meetings at which there were raised voices and it got was very heated. We are not sure from where the ultimate pressure was coming to sign off on the 41 cases. In particular, within the PDIM group's report there were four or five very basic recommendations which we did not believe went any of the way towards addressing the issues that had been raised, but there certainly seemed to be pressure coming from somewhere to sign off on the recommendations. I am not sure if it was to satisfy a requirement for the Policing Authority or something else, but we certainly felt significant pressure was being brought to bear at those meetings. As I said in my statement, I also received telephone calls.