The cost to the Metropolitan Police of investigating the phone-hacking scandal has passed £20m in less than two years, with almost 150 officers assigned to the task, HuffPost UK can reveal.
Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act lay bare the toll the three separate investigations have taken on the cash-strapped force’s finances.
The final bill is likely to be much higher as the Met did not include legal costs, saying these will be published for the first time in April.
Reported by the Huffington Post UK. You can read the full story here.