At that time the IRA agreed to become involved in a disarmament process as part of an overall political package to restore the suspended powersharing executive and implement all aspects of the Good Friday Agreement including police reform and demilitarisation.
But in the latest report, Diversity Matters, published in May 2003, the authors comment on the failure ofpolice authorities to fully implement the earlier reports' recommendations.
The report also shows for the first time that South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service documents were subject to the same kind of alterations as those ofpolice, and that the ambulance service failed to implement its major incident plan properly.