Two serving police officers could face criminal charges following the Stevens Inquiry into Northern Ireland security force collusion with loyalist killers.
PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde said today that details on the pair were among files Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Both officers were in the Royal Ulster Constabulary when Ulster Defence Association gunmen murdered Belfast solicitor Mr Pat Finucane in February 1989.
Sir John uncovered shocking levels of conspiracy between covert military intelligence, RUC Special Branch and loyalist paramilitaries.
Details on up to 20 soldiers and police officers believed to be involved in the plot have been passed to the DPP.
But as he briefed the Policing Board in Belfast, the Chief Constable told members not all police officers implicated had retired.
"Two of those relate to serving police officers who had very junior rank at that time of the (Finucane) investigation," he said.