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**Maggy** · 23-07-2012, 16:14

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18950691

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Two officers at high-security prisons allegedly took illegal payments from Mirror, Express and News International journalists, a senior police officer has told the Leveson Inquiry.
Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers said one officer had allegedly received £35,000.
But she said stories possibly linked to the payments revealed "very limited material of genuine public interest".

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In her evidence, DAC Akers gave a breakdown of arrests made and information gathered during the three investigations she is leading, including:

Forty-one arrests as part of Operation Elveden into corrupt payments to officials
This includes 23 former or current journalists, four police officers, nine current or former public officials and five alleged "go-betweens"
Fifteen current and former journalists arrested during Operation Weeting inquiry into phone hacking - 12 are on bail
Six people, including former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie, have been charged and are to appear in court in September
Files relating to three police officers and one journalist are currently with the Crown Prosecution Service
Seven arrests have been made as part of Operation Tuleta into allegations that computers were hacked
Police are looking into 101 allegations of data intrusion
Eight to 11 terabytes of electronic data are being examined

Ms Akers also suggested certain information obtained by News International seemed to have come from stolen mobile phones - one taken in London and another in Manchester.
She said police officers were investigating whether this was "the tip of the iceberg" relating to alleged accessing of stolen mobile phones.

Is the the tip of the iceberg overall.?Have some 'got away with it' one wonders?