Operation Elveden: police officer arrested
A 50-year-old police officer is arrested under Operation Elveden, the investigation largely focused on “inappropriate payments” by the media to police and public officials.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service arrested the man, a Metropolitan police officer in the territorial policing command in a south London borough, at his home in Wimbledon.
He was arrested a 6am on suspicion of misconduct in a public office. He is being interviewed at a south London police station and a search of his property is being conducted.
The arrest is a result of information provided by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation through the media organisation’s management and standards committee – which was set up to take responsibility for all matters relating to the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct News of the World.
The Metropolitan police said the arrest “relates to suspected payments to a police officer and is not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately”.
The arrest was the 60th under the operation.
