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Letter from Deputy Commissioner to Chair of MPA regarding extraordinary rendition

The following is a letter sent by Deputy Commissioner, Paul Stephenson to Len Duvall, Chair of the MPA, in response to his letter dated 20 April 2006 asking for clarification on extraordinary rendition

26 April 2006

Dear Len,

Re: Extraordinary rendition

Thank you for your letter of 20th April. To assist in clarifying this specific issue I have asked the following questions of Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations, Andy Hayman:

1. Have enquiries been made in all those areas of the MPA that could reasonably be expected to have had any dealings with extraordinary rendition?
2. Having made those enquiries are you satisfied that there has been no knowledge of these activities and therefore no associated MPS activity?

Andy Hayman's response to those questions are that enquiries have been made in all relevant areas of the MPS and on that basis he is satisfied that there is no knowledge within the MPS of MPS involvement in such activities.

The phrase "no knowledge" is used for the simple reason that we properly share counter terrorism intelligence with other countries either directly or indirectly via our own intelligence agencies and it is the case that we will not necessarily know the use to which they then put the intelligence or it's outcome

Yours

Paul R Stephenson QPM
Deputy Commissioner

The following pages on the MPA website are relevant:

• Press release 34/06
  MPA – assured that there is no knowledge of extraordinary rendition within MPS