document.

Quinton Edness expressed his concern about last week's revelation that an annex to the Grundy report stating that there were no local senior officers were ready to assume the command of the Bermuda Police Service had been made public.

Lionel Grundy is the British Inspector General of Dependent Territories Police Forces and his report was drawn up after a second inspection of the Bermuda Police Service.

The report was made public but the appendix was kept confidential.

"The document is an expression of Mr. Grundy's personal views,'' Mr. Edness said. "As he makes clear in the report, it is a pen picture based upon his impressions following meetings with the officers.'' He also pointed out that Mr. Grundy's views were not "entirely negative''.

Mr. Edness blasted the mole who leaked the secret appendix to the report.

"To my knowledge, there are three copies of this annex in Bermuda,'' he said.

"I have one in a safe in my office, the Governor has one at Government House and the third was given to the Police.

"What really disturbs me is that whoever slipped this document to the press does not seem to have been concerned in the least about damaging the reputations and the morale of the local officers concerned.'' Mr. Edness said he had asked Acting Commissioner Jean Jacques Lemay to tell the officers of his "disappointment over the breach.

"I wish senior officers to know that the Government accepts that the opinions expressed by Mr. Grundy are solely his and based upon relatively short discussions.'' He added that the Government planned to set up a formal assessment procedure -- with the aid of the UK's Home Office Assessment and Consultancy Unit -- specially designed for Bermuda.

The procedure is expected to be completed early in the next year.