UK police arrest 3 in phone hacking probe

London:  British authorities have arrested a police officer and two journalists as part of the investigation into phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.[caption id="attachment_461170" align="alignleft" width="380"] Rebekah Brooks.[/caption]The 39-year-old police officer was arrested in Wiltshire in southwest England by officers investigating inappropriate payments to police and public officials. A 51-year-old journalist from Bristol and a 32-year-old journalist from London were also being questioned Wednesday.The corruption investigation is now being run in conjunction with probes into phone hacking that followed revelations that reporters at Murdoch's now-shuttered News of the World tabloid routinely intercepted voicemails of those in the public eye.Police say the arrests —bringing the number under investigation to 50 — came from information released by a News Corp. committee created to get to the bottom of the scandal.AP