Police have been struggling to come up with an authoritative list of who was in the building when the fire started, making it hard to determine how many had died.
"But my understanding is that the best advice is that retrofitting sprinklers may not always be the best technical way of ensuring fire safety in a building", he said.
Ronnie King, the UK's former chief fire officer, told Al Jazeera: "I wouldn't wish to denigrate those who installed the cladding because - whatever the cladding was - it did not have to be fire resistant under the building regulations", said King.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who was at the meeting, said he used it as a "crucial opportunity for me to make clear to the Government" what the residents need.
The cause of Wednesday's blaze in London is still under investigation, but anger has mounted in the community amid reports that exterior panelling used in an extensive renovation completed past year may have helped the flames to spread. Hands cautioned that officials don't yet have exact details about the renovation that ended just previous year.
More than 200 firefighters and 40 fire trucks were involved in operations to douse the blaze, which last for several hours.
Queen Elizabeth II has spoken regarding the recent Grenfell Tower fire in London, England.
Dozens of demonstrators surged towards the entrance of St Clement's church and there were scuffles outside as organisers appealed for calm.
Areas near the blaze are covered in posters showing missing persons.
He says it may be necessary for numerous outmoded tower blocks built in the 1970s to be demolished because of safety concerns.
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But public anger has been swelling, with furious residents heckling May and storming the local authority headquarters Friday. He said police will release images and video from inside the tower tomorrow, pending the approval of Grenfell families.
The police are appealing to anyone with pictures or videos of the blaze to hand them in, as they may help establish not only where and how the fire started, but also how it spread.
Cundy said there may have been people in the tower that police are not aware of, which would add to the death toll.
He says tower residents who survived fear a cover-up will keep the truth from coming out.
Police have said criminal prosecutors will be pursued if there is evidence of wrongdoing. Attention has focused on materials used during the renovation process completed a year ago.
Grenfell Tower in west London after a fire engulfed the 24-storey building on Wednesday morning, Saturday, June 17, 2017.
He told ITV: "Occupy it, compulsory purchase it, requisition it - there's a lot of things you can do".
He said the situation has become an emergency and that "all assets" should be brought to the table.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has already called on the government to conduct an investigation into reports that Gavin Barwell, the former housing minister who was recently appointed as the Prime Minister's adviser, had failed to OK a fire safety review request he had received.
We know that there are still bodies of those who died inside the building and we want to return those people to their families as soon as we possibly can.
Relatives of those missing after a high-rise tower blaze in London are searching frantically for their loved ones, as the police commander in charge of the investigation says he hopes the death toll will not rise to three figures.
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