Thorold Masefield by the end of the week.

A spokesman for Government House said yesterday: "It's in its final stages -- we are expecting something by the end of the week or the beginning of next week.'' The report -- the work of a three-man Commission of Inquiry headed by ex-Bermuda Court of Appeal judge Telford Georges -- is to be made public. The Commission, which also included Her Majesty's Inspector of Dependent Territories Police Forces Lionel Grundy and former Cabinet Secretary Kenneth Richardson, heard nearly a week of evidence last month.

A probe was ordered by Governor Thorold Masefield in the wake of allegations by ex-drugs squad detective Lendrea Davis.

She claimed she had come under pressure to alter her notes following the arrest of Ellsworth Wilson, Mount Hill, Pembroke, in February. And the Commission heard evidence that alleged drugs exhibits seized from Mr. Wilson's Toyota Land Cruiser had not been logged or tagged before being placed in a secure lock-up overnight.

The lack of continuity in evidence led Puisne Judge Norma Wade in June to order a jury to return formal not guilty verdicts on drugs charges laid against Mr. Wilson. The Commission's brief was to examine the workings of the drugs squad, particularly the controversy surrounding the Wilson case, and to make recommendations arising from the evidence presented to it.

Based on the summing-up by Commission counsel Kim White, the report is likely to be highly critical of what was called "a chain of failure'' in management and supervision of front-line officers.

Mr. White also called for legislation to allow the taping of interviews with suspects to jump the queue for Parliamentary draughtsmen.