LONDON'S Metropolitan Police has arrested two of its own officers and a journalist from Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper as part of its probe into corrupt payments to public officials by the media.
Scotland Yard said the three men were arrested before dawn at their homes by detectives working on Operation Elveden, which was set up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch's News of the World tabloid.
"The three were arrested at their separate home addresses at approximately 0600 GMT (1700 AEDT) in connection with a number of suspected offences between 2004 and 2011," the force said.
The journalist has been named as The Sun's crime correspondent Anthony France, 39, and is believed to be the 22nd journalist from the paper to be detained as part of the inquiry.
The owners of The Sun, News International, said it was "particularly disappointing" that another journalist from the company had been arrested.
One of the detained policemen is a 47-year-old officer with Scotland Yard's Specialist Operations command, which covers the protection of the royal family as well as airport security and counter-terrorism.
The other officer, 30, is part of the Specialist Crime and Operations command covering serious crime in the British capital.
Both men were arrested on suspicion of misconduct in a public office and were being interviewed at separate police stations, the force said.
France was arrested at his home in Hertfordshire, north of London on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt and suspected conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office.
He was being interviewed at a north London police station.
Police have arrested a total of 56 journalists and public officials under Operation Elveden, one of three probes set up after the hacking scandal forced Murdoch to shut down the News of the World in July 2011.
Revelations that the newspaper had accessed the voicemail messages of a murdered schoolgirl as well as dozens of public figures sparked a political storm in Britain and led to a judicial inquiry into press ethics.
Twenty-six people have been arrested under the probe into phone hacking itself, Operation Weeting, while a third probe into computer-hacking, Operation Tuleta, has made 19 arrests.
Scotland Yard said the latest arrests were made as a result of information provided to the management and standards committee of News Corporation, Murdoch's US-based media empire.
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