I can’t give more factual information than that provided by the Guardian. So consider this an FYI diary. And, warning, while breaking news, the information is not of another nail in the voldemordoch coffin quality.
It does, IMHO, provide an end of the week reason to raise a glass, for its shows that the regular police were disciplining their own on their own for NoTW misbehavior, while up at the Met/Scotland Yard, their senior officers were on the make and take with the same paper. Worth a second upraising INHO is that now that push has come to shove, the Surrey local police has not shoved their own local discipline under the carpet although it was, I am guessing a case closed. And a tear for the poor Dowlers, as well. Their sorrow will never end, but they hardly need to have the refresh button being pushed so frequently.
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Guardian reports, in a word or three, that the police watchdog agency is investigating a Milly Dowler leak which came from an officer working on the abduction and the information came to them from the force itself.
NoTW and police, leaks not hacks
Following a voluntary referral from the force about an allegation that an officer gave information to the newspaper in relation to the investigation into Dowler’s murder in 2002….The IIPC is investigating … allegations …[which] relate to the early stages of the investigation into Dowler’s disappearance…..It is thought a Surrey police officer met a female journalist from the News of the World at a social event in London and told her details about the leads officers who were working on the case were following. It is not thought he was paid for that information.
Sources claimed the officer in question was publicly admonished in front of colleagues when the paper subsequently published the information in a story, taken off the case and then disciplined.
crossposted at Daily Kos.
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