drugs trial controversy -- resigned from the Police on Wednesday.

And the Police promised yesterday to make public the results of their internal investigation into Det. Con. Rudolph Richardson's conduct after he was heard on secretly recorded tapes trying to get Det. Con Davis to change her witness statements.

Deputy Commissioner Jean Jacques Lemay made these statements after an hour-long meeting with Attorney General Elliott Mottley.

That meeting was made necessary after procedural irregularities surfaced during the Mr. Wilson's drugs trial.

Mr. Wilson was charged with possessing and handling more than $50,000 worth of heroin with intent to supply on February 21, 1996 but was formally acquitted after Puisne Judge Norma Wade directed the jury to return formal not guilty verdicts.

Mr. Lemay said Det. Con. Richardson's actions were not criminal but will be fully investigated.

It was Det. Con. Richardson, along with Det. Con. Clinard Burgess, who met with Det. Con. Davis on more than one occasion and attempted to get her to alter her statement.

Det. Con. Davis was the official note-taker of the events that took place when Mr. Wilson was arrested in 1996.

But one week before the trial was due to start in May 1997, Det. Con.

Richardson tried to meet with Det. Con. Davis to get her to include additional facts into her statement.

Police reopen drugs officer investigation It emerged that Det. Con. Davis' statements were different from the other detectives and this spurred Det. Con. Richardson to action.

Det. Con. Davis approached Mr. Lemay about this on May 16, 1997 and followed this up with a letter from her solicitor.

However Det. Con. Richardson denied approaching her but later recanted when a tape of a conversation they had two days earlier was produced.

Mr. Lemay would not say what action, if any, will be taken against Det. Con.

Richardson. If any disciplinary action was taken, he said, it will not be made public.

Mr. Lemay maintained he welcomed the opportunity for the Police Service to look again at its procedures and practices to see if improvements can be made.

"We want to look at how this was handled,'' he said. "The kind of supervision that took place and why certain documents were not controlled better.'' Another issue for the internal investigation, he said, was the matter of a brown bag allegedly to have contained two plastic bags of heroin which Mr.

Wilson was accused of carrying.

"We need to do that to ensure the integrity of that department,'' he continued. "But we are here talking about one case and one Police officer.

"We are not talking about a number of Police officers. In this particular case we know that the leading investigator will be required to respond to a number of questions about how he handled that particular case.'' And he said any other trials in which Det. Con. Richardson has played a role -- such as the drugs case of cruise ship employees Alvin Francois and Trevor Morain -- will now be reviewed in consultation with the Attorney General.

"Obviously I don't want to preempt anything here, but we are aware of a number of outstanding cases before the courts and we want to move through this investigation as soon as possible.

"We will have to do our own homework and look at the cases to see the implication of the officer in each of those cases where that officer has been involved in.'' But Mr. Wilson's lawyer, Tim Marshall, said yesterday he was unimpressed with the idea of the Bermuda Police Service doing another internal investigation.

He said there were many problems that came to light such as the security of the exhibits, procedures for taking statements and making contemporaneous records.

"It's no good to have a massive internal investigation because that may give the Police some comfort but it doesn't give the public much comfort.

"What the public needs is a commission where everyone concerned about the problems can go before it and make positive suggestions about how the Police procedures can be improved upon for everyone's benefit.

"That way everyone will know what the procedures are and can have some respect for them.''