Police probe leak of wages report

Civilian staff protested outside the force's Middlemoor HQ last year

Devon and Cornwall Police are investigating who leaked a report into a pay review fiasco.

Hundreds of staff walked out last April in protest at re-grading proposals which would have left some with pay cuts of up to £8,000.

The force later ditched the re-grading exercise and ordered a report by the Metropolitan Police.

That report, criticising the Devon and Cornwall force, has just been released, two weeks after it was leaked.

The Metropolitan Police said the re-grading exercise failed and described "a series of actions by different individuals, some very minor, which, when taken together, resulted in a major failure".

It went on: "There appeared to be a lack of understanding of the strategic importance and significance of the project by some members of the command team [the force's most senior officers]."