The Metropolitan Police investigated 38 press leaks over a five-year period – and according to one well-placed source the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act would have been used to seize phone records in the “vast majority” of cases. Met commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe referred to the leak enquiries in his submission to the Leveson Inquiry, … Continue reading Met conducted 38 press leak investigations in five years – RIPA used in ‘vast majority’, says source