Scotland Yard has told the ABC that 
investigations of this nature are fast-moving, complex and dynamic. 
Information shared by law enforcement agencies is 
continually updated and reviewed 
as further details come to light 
as a result of further inquiries.

Well, I think the statement is a fudge and 
it's being economical with the truth.

[John O'Connor is a former commander at Scotland Yard
and he's accused the British police of sloppy detective work.]

It doesn't matter how fast moving, complex and 
dynamic this inquiry was, what doesn't change are the facts. 
And it's the facts which have been relayed incorrectly and 
led to the Federal Police in Australia arresting Haneef, 
and to my view I think it's unforgivable, 
given information which is either incorrect, 
glossed or deliberately passed over to them.

The driving force behind this was a bit of glory hunting.
If they pass on information to the Federal Police in Australia
and the Federal Police end up with uncovering a terrorist cell and
preventing terrorist incidents, 
then Scotland Yard will claim the credit for it, and 
that may indeed be the driving force behind this. 
If that is the case, it needs to be rooted out, 
it needs to be exposed and 
I think there is some apologies that are due.

Do you think both police forces were in too much of a hurry
to lay charges against Dr Haneef?

Well, I think Scotland Yard are privately 
telling the media in this country that 
they didn't ask the Australians to arrest Haneef. 
And there may be some truth in that, because 
had they had any evidence, they would've applied for extradition, 
and clearly they didn't do that.

So it might very well be that the Australians should've spent 
a little bit more time on corroborating the information and really 
checking on the source and making sure that 
it was right and getting something in writing.

Who should be embarrassed here,
Scotland Yard or the Australian Federal Police?

I think Scotland Yard for the main part, 
but the Federal Police in Australia should
accept some of the responsibility,
because it seems to me that
they may have acted prematurely in what they did,
but bearing in mind they put their trust and their belief
in what they were told by Scotland Yard.

So I think it requires an investigation
to get to the exact facts of
what the Australian authorities were told.