Police to investigate alleged email hacking at the Times Email hacking allegations against the Times are to be investigated by the Met. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images The Metropolitan police is investigating alleged email hacking at the Times, in response to a letter from the Labour MP Tom Watson. Officers from Operation Tuleta, which is investigating breaches of privacy involving computers, are in contact with the MP in relation to "specific issues" he wishes to raise, Scotland Yard confirmed on Thursday. Watson wrote to the Met's deputy assistant commissioner, Sue Akers, on 23 January asking the force to investigate allegations of email hacking at the News International paper. The Met said in a statement: "We can confirm that a letter was received on Monday 23 January, from MP Tom Watson. Officers from Operation Tuleta are in contact with Mr Watson in relation to specific issues he wishes to raise. We are not prepared to give a running commentary on the Operation Tuleta investigation. Watson said on Twitter on Thursday: "The Met police have confirmed to me they are investigating @rupertmurdoch's newspaper The Times over email hacking."