Police judgment poor in News Corp hacking case - report
(Reuters) - Senior London police staff linked to the News Corp phone hacking scandal showed poor judgment, took bad decisions and got too close to journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, an independent watchdog said on Thursday.
While the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) rejected allegations of corruption involving two of the top personnel at the Metropolitan Police (MPS), it was highly critical of their and senior colleagues' media relationships.
One of the former policemen named by the IPCC said its release of two reports simultaneously appeared designed to cause "maximum damage" to his reputation or to generate publicity for the IPCC.
The IPCC said despite a growing clamour over phone hacking centred on Murdoch's News International, the British newspaper arm of his News Corp empire, senior people at the force appeared "to have been oblivious to the perception of conflict".
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