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Phone hacking: serving female Scotland Yard officer, 52, held on corruption claims
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:40:43 -0600 (CST)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8969865/Phone-hacking-serving-female-Scotland-Yard-officer-52-held-on-corruption-claims.html By Andrew Hough, and Mark Hughes The Telegraph 21 Dec 2011The 52-year-old, who has not been named, was arrested at her home in Essex under Operation Elveden, the Metropolitan Police operation investigating inappropriate payments to police for information.
Sources said she is a member of the Metropolitan Police's specialist operations branch.
The branch has three functions including protecting the Royal Family and public officials, investigating terrorism and providing protection to major landmarks such as Houses of Parliament and airports including Heathrow.
She was arrested in a dawn raid, by officers from her own force, on "suspicion of misconduct in a public office and offences contrary to the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906".
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