article_snippet: Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Metropolitan Police Commissioner (pictured at the Home Affairs Select Committee) said that, with the benefit of hindsight, officers should have communicated directly with the families .
article_snippet: Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Metropolitan Police Commissioner ( were later seen on CCTV in Turkey, dressed in burkas and waiting for a bus to take Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Metropolitan Police Commissioner ( to the border with Syria.
article_snippet: Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Metropolitan Police Commissioner ( are believed to be staying with Sharmeena Begum, the fellow pupil from Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Metropolitan Police Commissioner ( school who went missing in December.
article_snippet: The 15-year-old student, the first of the four to disappear from Bethnal Green Academy in east London, had not been identified by the authorities but was named last week.
article_snippet: Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has admitted that 'with the benefit of hindsight' officers should have communicated directly with the families.
article_snippet: The country's top police officer was later forced to apologise to the families over a misplaced letter relating to Sharmeena's disappearance, apologising that it 'didn't get through'.
article_snippet: a misplaced letter relating to Sharmeena's disappearance had been given to the three pupils instead of being sent directly to the parents, after the girl were spoken to by police as potential witnesses after the girl went missing.
article_snippet: With respect to the disappearance of our children our have been disappointed by the handling of this matter by the school, Met police and the local authority, all of whom our feel failed to act appropriately and pass on vital information to our or indeed between each other. '