squad is now in the hands of Governor Thorold Masefield, it was revealed this week.

Government House Registrar Paul Dryden said: "The Governor will be reviewing it.

"I can't predict how long that will take, but obviously we want to get what was said out in the open as soon as possible. The Governor, however, will want to examine the report thoroughly.'' Mr. Dryden added that it was likely that the Governor would also want to discuss the report and its implications with Labour and Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness and Police Commissioner Colin Coxall.

And Mr. Dryden said: "There may well be recommendations made by the inquiry.

I am sure if there are they will be put forward. But I don't know because I haven't seen it.'' The Commission, chaired by former Bermuda Court of Appeal judge Telford Georges, heard more than a week of evidence and rose on August 22.

Also sitting on the tribunal were Her Majesty's Inspector of Dependent Territories Police Forces Lionel Grundy and former Cabinet Secretary Kenneth Richardson.

The probe was ordered by Mr. Masefield in the wake of allegations by ex-drugs squad detective Lendrea Davis.

She claimed she had come under pressure to alter her notes to match those of other officers following the arrest of Ellsworth Wilson, Mount Hill, Pembroke, in February.

And the Commission heard that a signature attached to one page of a nine-page statement by Ms Davis had been forged, with her first name mis-spelt.

The Commission also heard evidence that alleged drugs exhibits seized from Mr.

Wilson's Toyota Land Cruiser had not been logged or tagged before being placed in a secure lock-up overnight.

At a Supreme Court trial in June, Puisne Judge Norma Wade ruled ordered a jury to return formal not guilty verdicts on drugs charges laid against Mr. Wilson.

The Commission's brief was to examine the general policies and procedures in the drugs squad, with particular reference to the controversy surrounding the Wilson case, and to make any recommendations arising from the evidence presented to it.

Based on the summing up by Commission counsel Kim White, the report is likely to be critical of what was called "a chain of failure'' in the management and supervision of front line officers.

Mr. White also called for legislation to allow for the taping of interviews with suspects to be given priority.

He was speaking after the Commission heard that proposed changes in the law were stalled in a queue of legislation awaiting attention by Parliamentary legal draughtsmen.