The PSNI Chief Constable is insisting his force has an excellent working relationship with the Gardai.
Matt Baggott's comments come in the wake of the Smithwick Tribunal finding of Garda collusion in the IRA murders of two senior RUC officers in 1989.
Meanwhile the Sinn Fein leader is again defending his controversial remarks that the policemen were killed because they were lax about their security.
Our News Correspondent Fergal O'Brien reports:
