In 2003 Rebekah Brooks, the editor of the News of the World, said that journalists "had paid police for information in the past". This is a criminal offence (both for the journalists and the police officers who took the money). Yesterday assistant police Commissioner Cressida Dick said that they planned "to conduct a scoping exercise to establish whether there are now any grounds for beginning a criminal investigation".
It is nice to know that our police spring into action so quickly!
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