In 2011 the Ombudsman concluded Coming_to_believe that there were major failings in the police investigation Criminal_investigation , but no evidence that police colluded Collaboration with the UVF .

The Ombudsman did not investigate Criminal_investigation the role of informers and the report Reporting was branded a whitewash .

The Ombudsman 's own investigators demanded Request to be disassociated from it .

The report Reporting was quashed , the Ombudsman replaced Change_of_leadership and a new inquiry ordered Arranging .

In 2016 , a new Ombudsman report concluded Coming_to_believe that there had been collusion between the police and the UVF , and that the investigation Criminal_investigation was undermined by the wish to protect informers , but found Know no evidence police had foreknowledge of the attack Attack .

On 24 August 2010 , following an eight-year investigation Criminal_investigation , the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland published Publishing a report Reporting into the bombing Attack , which stated Statement that the Royal Ulster Constabulary believed in Know the early 1970s that Father James Chesney , a local Roman Catholic priest , was the IRA 's quartermaster and Director of Operations of the South Derry Brigade .

A 2001 report by the Police Ombudsman said Statement that the RUC Special Branch failed to act on prior warnings Warning and criticised Judgment_communication the RUC 's investigation of the bombing Terrorism .