一个月后前安德鲁·阿尔伯特·克里斯琴的被捕伦敦警察局局长正在敦促美国官员从爱泼斯坦的文件中寻找未经编辑的材料。
大都会警察局局长马克·罗利爵士在接受美国广播公司新闻首席调查记者亚伦·卡特斯基采访时表示，他的办公室正在与司法部沟通，以获取与安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎和前英国驻美国大使正在进行的调查有关的原始文件。彼得·曼德尔森.
“当然，有大量的证据...在美国所有这些文件中，在某个阶段，我们将需要未经编辑的证据，”罗利说。“我们需要原始副本，以及它来自哪里，如果我们进入法庭诉讼阶段，这将是必要的。”
尽管司法部官员一再坚称，美国国内没有更多关于被定罪的性犯罪者及其同谋Ghislaine Maxwell的调查，但英国官员正在对蒙巴顿-温莎和曼德尔森进行前所未有的调查，怀疑他们在公职中行为不端。
司法部今年早些时候公布的电子邮件显示，蒙巴顿-温莎和曼德尔森似乎分享敏感信息爱泼斯坦分别担任英国贸易特使和商务大臣。
在司法部发布的一封电子邮件中，罗利提到，曼德尔森似乎确认了欧盟主权债务危机期间即将对爱泼斯坦进行救助的时机。
罗利说:“这看起来像是与爱泼斯坦分享的，所以我们正在研究这是否是刑事犯罪，然后泰晤士河谷的同事们正在研究安德鲁·蒙巴顿·温瑟可能分享的其他文件。”
根据罗利的说法，他的部门也在评估“一系列建议的性指控”，以确定是否有任何“值得刑事调查”
对蒙巴顿-温莎的怀疑始于几年前，一张照片被公开，照片上这位前王子搂着弗吉尼亚·吉弗尔的腰，吉弗尔说照片拍摄时她才17岁。在她之前去年自杀身亡吉弗尔声称，爱泼斯坦在2001年贩卖了她，与这位前王子发生了性关系。蒙巴顿-温莎长期以来一直否认有不当行为，并在2019年告诉BBC，这些指控不可信。
当被问及吉弗尔的指控时，罗利声称，他们在四次录音采访中从吉弗尔那里获得的信息无法支持调查。
“对于弗吉尼亚·吉弗尔，我们采访了她四次...。这些采访没有给我们任何证据或任何指控性犯罪或贩运，我们可以在英国调查，”他说。“这就是调查没有进行下去的原因。”
然而，罗利表示，他希望重新审视对蒙巴顿-温莎的指控有助于提高公众的信任，即执法部门愿意审查任何人，无论他们的头衔或地位如何。
“这些调查都是根据证据进行的——对调查名人或有权势的人来说很舒服。我认为对警察来说，做到这一点真的很重要，那种无所畏惧或不偏袒的感觉。法律平等地适用于每个人，而且那些案件将会去，比方说，无论证据把我们带到哪里，”他说。
罗利说，对蒙巴顿-温莎的调查是在大都会警察局越来越多地针对性暴力和家庭暴力的情况下进行的。
“我们制定了更加积极主动的策略，瞄准那些对妇女和儿童构成威胁的最危险的人，就像我们对付恐怖分子和有组织犯罪一样。因此，综合各种因素，利率稳步下降，”他说。“我们正在取得巨大进展，最重要的是——对我和警务工作都至关重要的是——对伦敦警察大楼的信任。”
罗利还吹捧了大都会警察局用来降低犯罪率的一些技术，如面部识别，他说这种技术使警察能够识别暴力罪犯，同时最大限度地减少对广大公众的侵扰。
虽然他承认该技术引发了隐私问题，但罗利认为，专注于使用该技术锁定暴力罪犯有助于提高公众信任度，他说这是伦敦警察厅200年历史的基础。
他说:“(维持治安)应该从获得民主国家人民同意的理念出发，使用必要的最低限度的武力，并专注于预防犯罪，这些理念今天仍然指导着我们。”。
罗利说，他希望向公众坦诚大都会警察局的工作——从低级别的街头犯罪到对英国社会一些最杰出人物的指控——可以恢复公众对执法部门的信任。
“英国的警务工作将不带任何恐惧或偏袒，这是基本原则。我认为如果你没有这一点，你就永远不会得到公众对警察的信任和信心，所以这对我真的很重要，”他说。
Head of London’s Metropolitan Police pushes for unredacted Epstein files
One month afterthe arrest of former Prince Andrew, the head of London's Metropolitan Police is pushing U.S. officials for unredacted material from the Epstein files.
In an interview with ABC News' chief investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said his office is in communication with the Department of Justice to access the original documents related to ongoing investigations of both Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and former British ambassador to the U.S.Peter Mandelson.
"Of course, there's a big body of that evidence ... in the United States in all those files and at some stage we're going to need the unredacted evidence," Rowley said. "We need the original copy and where did it come from and that's going to be necessary if we get to the stage of court cases."
While Department of Justice officials have repeatedly insisted that there is nothing more to investigate stateside about the convicted sex offender and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, officials in the United Kingdom are carrying out unprecedented investigations into both Mountbatten-Windsor and Mandelson on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
Emails released earlier this year by the Department of Justice suggested that both Mountbatten-Windsor and Mandelsonappeared to share sensitive informationwith Epstein stemming from their roles as the U.K. trade envoy and business secretary, respectively.
In one email released by the Department of Justice and referenced by Rowley, Mandelson appeared to confirm the timing of an impending bailout with Epstein during the European Union's sovereign debt crisis.
"It looks like it was shared with Epstein so we're looking at that as to whether that's a criminal offense and then colleagues in Thames Valley are looking at other documents that Andrew Mountbatten-Winsor potentially shared," Rowley said.
According to Rowley, his department is also assessing "a whole range of suggested sexual allegations" to determine if any "merit a criminal investigation."
Suspicion about Mountbatten-Windsor began years ago following the publication of a photograph showing the former prince with his arm around the waist of Virginia Guiffre, who said she was 17 years old at the time of the photograph. Before shedied by suicide last year, Guiffre alleged that Epstein trafficked her in 2001 to have sex with the former prince. Mountbatten-Windsor has long denied wrongdoing and told the BBC in 2019 that the allegations are not credible.
When asked about the allegations made by Guiffre, Rowley claimed that the information they received from Guiffre during four recorded interviews could not support an investigation.
"With Virginia Guiffre, we did four of those interviews with her ... .and those interviews didn't give us any evidence or any allegations of sexual offending or trafficking that we could investigate in the UK," he said. "That's why that investigation didn't go forward."
However, Rowley said he hopes the renewed look at the allegations against Mountbatten-Windsor helps improve the public's trust that law enforcement is willing to scrutinize anyone regardless of their title or status.
"Those investigations all go wherever the evidence takes them -- quite comfortable with investigating sort of famous or powerful people. I think it's really important for policing to do that, that sense of operating without fear or favor. The law applies equally to everyone, and those cases will go, say, wherever the evidence leads us to," he said.
Rowley said the investigation into Mountbatten-Windsor comes as the Metropolitan Police is increasingly targeting sexual and domestic violence.
"We've developed tactics to be much more proactive and targeting the most dangerous men who pose a threat to women and children just like we do terrorists and organized crime. So, a combination of factors has seen the rates steadily coming down," he said. "We're making big progress and most of all -- at the center of all this that matters to me and matters to policing -- is trust in the police's building in London."
Rowley also touted some of the technology used by the Metropolitan Police to lower crime rates such as facial recognition, which he said has allowed officers to identify violent offenders while minimizing intrusion to the broader public.
While he acknowledged that the technology has raised privacy concerns, Rowley argued that the focus on targeting violent offenders using the technology can help improve the public trust -- something he says is foundational to the Metropolitan Police's 200-year history.
"[Policing] should start from the idea of having the consent of people in a democracy and use the minimum force necessary and be focused on the prevention of crime, and those ideas still guide us today," he said.
Rowley said he hopes being upfront with the public about the work of the Metropolitan Police -- from low-level street crimes to allegations against some of the most prominent people in British society -- can renew the public's trust in law enforcement.
"Policing in the UK will operate without fear or favor, that's the fundamental principle. I think if you don't have that, you're never going to have the trust and confidence of the public in policing, so that's really important to me," he said.
