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- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:00:32 -0000
News International offices searched as four more men are arrested
Serving police officer among four arrested under Operation Elveden
investigation into payments to police
from the guardian, Saturday 28 January 2012 10.37 GMT
News International's offices in Wapping, east London. Photograph: Ian
Nicholson/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Four men, including a serving police officer, have been arrested in connection
with Scotland Yard's investigation into payments to police officers by
journalists.
Police are also carrying out searches of the News International offices in
Wapping, east London, and the homes of the four people.
A 29-year-old serving police officer was arrested at his place of work in
central London on suspicion of corruption and misconduct in public office. The
officer, of the Met's territorial policing unit, is the second police officer
to be arrested under the Operation Elveden investigation.
A 48-year-old man and a 56-year-old man were arrested at their homes in Essex.
Another man, aged 48, was held at his home in north London. All three were
arrested on suspicion of corruption and aiding and abetting misconduct in
public office.
Scotland Yard said the arrests were made following information provided by News
Corp's own investigation team.
Rupert Murdoch set up the management and standards committee in July following
the escalation of the phone-hacking scandal. According to well-placed sources,
it has been conducting a forensic analysis of payments by all journalists
between 2000 and 2006.
A statement from the Met police said: "The arrests were made between 06.00 and
08.00 by officers from Operation Elveden, the MPS [Metropolitan police service]
investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to police.
"The home addresses of those arrested are currently being searched, and
officers are also carrying out a number of searches at the offices of News
International in Wapping, east London. These searches are expected to conclude
this afternoon.
"Today's operation is the result of information provided to police by News
Corporation's management and standards committee. It relates to suspected
payments to police officers and is not about seeking journalists to reveal
confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained
legitimately."
All four men were being questioned at police stations in Essex and London,
police said. Twelve people have so far been arrested under Operation Elveden.
The operation is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints
Commission, and is being run in conjunction with Operation Weeting, the MPS
inquiry into the phone hacking of voicemail boxes.
It was launched after officers were handed documents suggesting that News
International journalists made illegal payments to police officers.
Others questioned as part of the inquiry include the former News International
chief executive Rebekah Brooks, the ex-Downing Street communications chief Andy
Coulson, the former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner, the
paper's former royal editor Clive Goodman, the former News of the World crime
editor Lucy Panton and the Sun district editor, Jamie Pyatt.
Brooks and Coulson are both former editors of the News of the World, which was
closed in July at the height of the hacking scandal following revelations that
the murdered teenager Milly Dowler's phone was hacked.
Deborah Glass, the deputy chair of the Independent Police Complaints
Commission, said: "It will be clear from today's events that this investigation
is following the evidence.
"I am satisfied with the strenuous efforts being made by this investigation to
identify police officers who may have taken corrupt payments, and I believe the
results will speak for themselves."
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