North Belfast Area Commander, Ch Insp Andy Freeburn, described the attack as "reckless and callous".
Area Commander George McGrandles praised the firefighters, saying their actions prevented the fire from spreading and damaging adjoining properties.
But the police's area commander in Foyle, Jon Burrows, refuted Mr Devenney's allegations.
Area commander, Ch Insp Sue Steen, said the new facility will help improve the police service available in the west.
On Wednesday, Fire Service Western Area Commander Eoin Doyle said the priority was finding the two people "not yet accounted for".
Neil Basu, area commander for south-east London, said that with "the benefit of hindsight", the information could have been of assistance to officers.
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Ch Insp Bob Beaton, sub area commander for Stirling, said crimes where the elderly were specifically targeted were "very rare" in the Stirling area.
But he made the admission after being told of CCTV footage which showed him showing him returning uninjured early on Sunday morning, Wellington area commander Inspector Peter Cowan told Radio New Zealand.
Ch Supt Beautridge, the area commander based at Gravesend police station, added that victims should speak to someone else in their community if they did not want to go to the police direct.
Inspector Gary Williams, the area commander, said some people were less tolerant of youngsters than they used to be - children playing football in the street were now perceived by some people as anti-social.
Earlier on Wednesday, Fire Service Western Area Commander Eoin Doyle said that additional firefighters were being drafted in to help find the bodies and establish how the fire began, just before 0500 GMT on Tuesday.
The UN confirmed that a white Antonov transport aircraft with false markings to make it look like a UN plane had been seen dropping supplies in an area where a rebel commander, David Yau Yau, has been operating.
The National Police commander in the area, Mauricio Marin, told reporters Thursday that they had found some of the miners' belongings.
Friday night it gave foreign oil interests in Nigeria, especially Shell, which the main operator in Niger Delta, till midnight Friday to leave the area or face what one commander called total war.
"Not only was there a risk posed to those people but there was massive inconvenience posed to people of all ages and to families in an around that area, " the district commander added.
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Ch Supt David Mallaby, divisional commander for the Accrington area, said there was a deep sense of loss in the community.
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After we touched down, I asked U.S. Army Colonel Steve Williams - that's the NATO Deputy Commander - about the border area we'd just seen.
James Brown, Camp Bucca's outgoing commander, is proud of the waiting area, and he wants to make it even better.
Now what do we see, before we go to an area the representative knows about it, he calls his commander, tells him the team is coming, so we get there and there is no evidence.
About three months ago, in the Third Region Command in East Timor's southern Suai area, refugees began seeking protection around Falintil camps, confronting commander Falur Rate Laek with a serious dilemma.
The Bush Administration has created the Department of Homeland Security, while the Defense Department has organized a new Northern Command in which for the first time a combatant commander has the entire continental United States within his area of responsibility.
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Although the Unified Command Plan establishes the authority of the Geographic Combatant Commander (GCC) to plan and conduct security cooperation activities within an assigned area of responsibility, there are a number of programs or activities over which the GCC has no influence.
Ricardo Sanchez, commander of American ground forces in Iraq said U.S. forces in the area responded as soon as the attack occurred.
After a half hour of cigarette-sharing and photo-snapping, the commander led us back down the trail to a roofed, open-walled meeting area with a table where he bade us sit and brought us tea.
In phase three, the helicopter crew radioed a commander to say that at least six armed men had entered a partially constructed building in a dense urban area.
Steve Branham, commander of the 7th Coast Guard District headquartered in Miami, said four Coast Guard cutters were in the area, each of them at least 210 feet in length and capable of carrying helicopters.
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