On 7 October the Scotland Yard unit dealing with sensitive police inquiries was found to be ‘corrupted’ by a firm of private investigators run by retired detectives who targeted former police colleagues to secure information about the progress of sensitive Met inquiries. Internal Scotland Yard documents described them as operating like ‘an organised crime network’. Last week police anti-corruption investigators arrested two fellow officers from Scotland Yard intelligence, following claims of a luxury car-hire company being used to launder money and make false insurance claims. Seven others were arrested as part of the operation. The detained police are a detective constable from the Met intelligence unit, on suspicion of money laundering, fraud by false representation, perverting the course of justice and offences under the Computer Misuse Act, and a constable on suspicion of fraud by false representation. See also: