The Metropolitan police has a team of up to 20 detectives based at News Corporation's internal investigation unit in Wapping, a move which leading media and human rights lawyers say puts press freedom in jeopardy.

The revelation comes as Sue Akers, the Met's deputy assistant commissioner, returns to the Leveson inquiry to provide further details about the three police inquiries into alleged illegal activity by newspapers: Weeting into phone hacking, Elveden into payments to the police and Tuleta into computer hacking.

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