South Yorkshire Police Chief Constable's first meeting with the Hillsborough Independent Panel...
On 2 March 2010 the first meeting of South Yorkshire Police Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes and the newly-created Hillsborough Independent Panel took place.
The panel, appointed to help oversee the release of files on the Hillsborough disaster, came to Sheffield after its first meeting in Liverpool last month.
Following today's session, Chief Constable Hughes commented “It was encouraging to meet the Hillsborough Independent Panel here in Sheffield. The members were keen to ensure that it is well understood by all that they are not a new enquiry into the disaster.
“I was pleased to have the opportunity to brief them on the work already carried out by South Yorkshire Police and our local partners.
“Since March last year we have all been steadily bringing together our remaining files and documents to ensure the archives here in Sheffield are as complete as possible.
“The establishment of the panel; the recruitment of the archivists and the growing recognition of the scale of this undertaking, both locally and nationally, means that interested parties and the public generally are gaining an insight as to just how long this process will take.
“We will create a public archive of documents for the historians of the future as well as the stakeholders of today – all of whom will be able to judge the events of Hillsborough for themselves.”
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