With several reports claiming that BlackBerry Messenger played a key role in helping to organise the London riots, the BlackBerry-maker, Research In Motion (RIM), said in a Monday statement that it would extend all possible cooperation to the Scotland Yard in the inquiry.

The police can apparently track down the people behind the violence - two nights of looting and rioting that hit parts of north and south London - on the basis of their communication with one another on the BlackBerry Messenger, the private social network of the RIM handsets.

As a part of the ongoing investigations by the police, the personal information of the BlackBerry owners involved in the riots – those who sent messages to one another and planned the unrest could be handed over to police by RIM.

The information that RIM can hand over to the police could include the names of these people, the names of their contacts, the number of messages sent and received, the time they were sent, and the location.

Though RIM could hand over the mentioned information without being issued with a warrant by the police, the company would probably hand over of the content of the BlackBerry owners’ “broadcasts” only if a warrant is granted to the police officers.

The information that RIM can share will clearly be of great interest to the police, especially after the Tuesday arrests of three teenagers on suspicion of inciting rioting via Facebook.