UK police say ‘sorry’ to families of missing girls
Amina Taylor
Press TV, London
The images of the three teenagers from Bethnal Green in London - Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum leaving the UK continue to haunt their families.
The ensuing mishandling of the case by authorities, including the Metropolitan Police, resulted in an appearance by Met chief Sir Bernard Hogan Howe and families of the missing girls before the influential Home Affairs Select Committee.
Sir Bernard was forced to apologize to the families after his force committed several bungles, including the failure to deliver a key letter warning that another teenage girl from the same school had left for ISIL controlled Raqqa in Syria.
Met boss sir Bernard Hogan-Howe will be pulling out all the stops to try and convince the families of the three missing girls that his force has not let them down as the families have claimed but rights organisations are worried that in an attempt to compensate for any alleged miss steps on this occasion, authorities might risk of breaching civil liberties.
Authorities say the search for the missing girls remains an active one and that the introduction of tighter safeguards will ensure it becomes harder for the vulnerable to slip through the net.
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