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January 20, 2009

MPs back crackdown on press background terror briefings

By David Rose

Ministers are facing pressure to devise guidelines to govern briefings to journalists by police during anti terrorism operations.

A Commons watchdog committee has backed pressure group Liberty which has called for the development of proper guidelines in the future. Police officers and civil servants who breached the guidelines would face disciplinary action.

The Home Affairs Select Committee yesterday told Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that it supported Liberty following an inquiry into the relationship between the police and the media.

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