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Metropolitan Police Officer 'Arrested For Leaking Phone Hacking To The Guardian'

Huffington Post UK   Dina Rickman First Posted: 19/08/11 17:23 BST Updated: 19/10/11 11:12 BST

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A police officer has been arrested for leaking information on phone hacking to the Guardian newspaper, Sky news reported on Friday.

In a statement the Metropolitan Police said a 51-year-old Detective Constable had been arrested at work on Thursday afternoon on suspicion of leaking information.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers, in charge of Operation Weeting, said: "I made it very clear when I took on this investigation the need for operational and information security. It is hugely disappointing that this may not have been adhered to.

"The MPS takes the un-authorised disclosure of information extremely seriously and has acted swiftly in making these arrests."

Police also announced they had arrested and bailed former News of the World feature writer, 35-year-old Dan Evans, on suspicion of phone hacking on Friday, saying: "He was arrested by appointment at a London police station at 10.30 this morning and subsequently bailed to return on a date in October."

Evans had been suspended from the paper.

A News International spokesperson said: "We are fully co-operating with the police investigation and we are unable to comment further on matters due to ongoing police investigations."

A spokesperson for the paper's publisher Guardian News & Media said: "We note the arrest of a Scotland Yard detective on suspicion of misconduct in a public office relating to unauthorised disclosure of information.

"On the broader point raised by the arrest, journalists would no doubt be concerned if conversations between off-the-record sources and reporters came routinely to be regarded as criminal activity. In common with all news organisations we have no comment to make on the sources of our journalism."

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Bazza24
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12:52 PM on 08/21/2011
It's a classic problem - we need investigative journalism to expose malpractice, but when does it, itself, expose rather than encourage, or even conduct, it?

Phone hacking has become a "heinous crime", when it's actually something kids have been doing for years. The "moral outrage" has been exploited to torpedo the Murdochs - fair enough, but now we have to all pretend to be shocked by this behaviour. Really?

Amusing that it's the Guardian involved though - something about glass houses and stones?
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Monica Wargirl
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02:46 AM on 08/21/2011
WERE ARE THE BIG FISH?
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07:10 AM on 08/20/2011
OK, so is this guy bad (corrupt Cop leaks information about ongoing investigation to media), or good (brave whistleblower risks career to ensure the truth is revealed)?
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tcz74
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01:17 AM on 08/20/2011
lets move up the chain, not down.
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Miserable Swine
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11:28 PM on 08/19/2011
So long as it`s right-wing press then leaks are ok; `lefty` liberal papers: not ok. :(
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rafael griezmann
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10:40 PM on 08/19/2011
Every government source that "feeds" state propaganda to the media under the cover of "a senior, (anonymous) government source said" should be arrested for disinformation and disqualified from holding any political or governmental position. Time to hang the politicians on their own petards.
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A10tess
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10:23 AM on 08/20/2011
sounds reasonable, what?
Only problem is we would soon run out of poulation able to be ... etc. etc.
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10:13 PM on 08/19/2011
What about that attempted bribe by Fixed News of a New York City police officer so as to get info on the families of survivors of 9/11?
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lunacougar
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09:12 PM on 08/19/2011
Arrested for leaking to The Guardian, shoot the messenger. No arrests for bent coppers leaking to News International, a further shot across the bows to any potential whistleblowers.
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05:07 AM on 08/20/2011
A very selective arrest I must say. However it's one that comes as no great surprise considering the climate the Establishment is now operating under. All it's various organs appear to be at loggerheads over some aspect of policy or one another and are incredibly suspicious I expect of each other's motives.

Just one more factor (if I may be permitted to include this in the general considerations regarding last week's Public Order disturbances) that might be seen as a contibuting factor in the general breakdown of respect for and belief in the system as a whole. When those at the top and in supposed authority appear to have little or no idea; competance or integrity - is at any grerat surprise that those at the very lowest positions in our Society have little respect or integrity as well?
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08:46 PM on 08/19/2011
Ni idea when and how this phone hacking case will be ended.
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08:38 PM on 08/19/2011
I'd personally like to have the name of the NYC prosecutor who leaked DSK's team's representation of a translation of the maid's phonecalls to the NYTs. Only after the tapes had been provided to the defense did we learn DSK's team had to construct the suggestion the maid was in it for the money from two seperate statements from two different calls and their own opinion of how to translate the language. Obviously, the prosecutor's office has no desire to do their duty, while the police had the bum red faced.

So, papers and law enforcemnt often massage one another's backs for their own sick purposes as well as the public interest. This is just a case of same. And we won't know which story he leaked until they finish prosecuting him. You know the Guradian's not going to say what he said. They possibly already have.
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abbadabba
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08:42 PM on 08/19/2011
For all we know, the guy's a national hero. We've certainly seen how handy the police have been to Murdoch in suppressing their bad news. Perhaps he helped us all out by outing some really good dirt. It's in the public's interest, even if it might not turn out to be in his. Perhaps prosecutors were deciding they didn't want to go after the bums, and he couldn't stand by and bear witness to more Murdochian machinations.

Or maybe he just gave the Guardian a heads up over the weekend about the Goodman letter. Won't know unless the cop wants to blow that he's been told to leak other news flattering to the police dept.
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Sickofpoliticians2
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08:16 PM on 08/19/2011
The prisons will have so many cops in them there'll be no space left for legitimate criminals
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11:27 PM on 08/19/2011
Like it! :) However, I thought the police were the legitimate criminals.
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07:38 PM on 08/19/2011
About time a cop was arrested. For five or more years NOW and likely other Murdoch rags engaged in blatant criminal invasion of citizens' privacy rights and put cops on their payroll and nothing was done about any of this. The probable reason is that Murdoch's influence permeated Parliament, No. 10 Downing St. and the office of public prosecutions. When are those involved in this activity and its cover up to be arrested?
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10:03 PM on 08/21/2011
We in Canada wonder what Rupert and the Canadian PM discussed in their secret meeting in NY?
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