Here's an interesting development, no doubt with some coded significance:

Northern Ireland's chief constable apologised for the manner in which Sinn Fein's Stormont office was raided last Friday.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, he said the searches of Sinn Fein's office and at addresses in north and west Belfast were "essential," but he admitted there had been "errors of judgement" in how the Stormont search had been conducted.

"I've looked at the film, and I think we could have done the raid itself in a more sensitive and appropriate style," he said. "But I would make the point that the need to search that office was clear in my mind as an investigator.

"That had to be done. That is not the issue for me. It is the style in which we did it and I think we could have done it better." (From the BBC website.