Phone hacking: prosecutors asked to decide on 11 suspects Giving details of the latest development in the hacking saga, Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said the four files now under consideration had resulted from investigations carried out by the Metropolitan Police. The files now with the CPS include: One journalist and one police officer with relation to alleged offences of misconduct in public office and the Data Protection Act. Scotland Yard is carrying out five investigations into the scandal: Operation Weeting which is looking at allegations of phone hacking; Operation Tuleta, which is looking at allegations of computer hacking; Operation Elveden, which is looking at allegations that journalists illegally paid public officials for information; Operation Kilo, which is focused on alleged leaks from Operation Weeting and Operation Sacha, looking at allegations that attempts were made to destroy material related to the other investigations. Miss Hill, who is The Guardian's special investigations correspondent, was questioned under caution in September last year over allegations that she had received leaked information from the phone hacking investigation. A 51-year-old detective, who worked on Operation Weeting, was also arrested in connection with the allegations. Mrs Brooks was arrested for a second time last month, along with her husband Charlie and four other people, by officers investigating allegations of a cover-up in the phone hacking inquiry. Mr Thurlbeck was also arrested last month by police investigating claims that he posted information related to a member of the News Corporation's management and standards committee on his blog. Mr Thurlbeck said yesterday that he had not been formally told of the latest development but added: "I am pleased that the legal process is moving forward to what I believe will be a confirmation that these allegations are completely without foundation." It remains unclear who the journalist is in the file connected to alleged breaches of the RIPA, but it is understood the offences now under consideration relate to the illegal interception of telephone calls by a News of the World journalist. Yesterday Mr Starmer published guidelines setting out how journalists may have broken the law. He said the new rules would help lawyers with "very difficult decisions." We cannot duck that, he said.