60. On 6 February 2012, DAC Akers appeared at the Leveson Inquiry and said that there were a total of 90 police officers working on Operation Weeting. It is believed that around 3,000 people may have had their phones hacked, a figure that was confirmed by DAC Akers at an evidence session of the Home Affairs Select Committee on 12 July 2011. At the same evidence session, Akers confirmed the police had contacted only 170 of the 3,870 people named in Glenn Mulcaire's files to date. There were 11,000 pages of the evidence with 5,000 landline phone numbers and 4,000 mobile phone numbers. on them inside the so-called "Glenn Mulcaire files". At the Leveson Inquiry on 6 February 2012, it was confirmed by Robert Jay QC that there are 6,349 potential victims of phone hacking. He also said that in Mulcaire's notes there were 4,375 names with phone numbers alongside. DAC Akers said that there are 829 "likely" victims. During the investigations, documentation provided to Operation Weeting suggested that some police personnel may have accepted "inappropriate payments" from news organisations in return for classified information. As a result, the Metropolitan Police Service opened an additional investigation, Operation Elveden, which is also being led by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Akers. Arrests By 13 March 2012, 23 people had been arrested as part of Operation Weeting. The sequence of arrests was as follows: Neville Thurlbeck [A], News of the World chief reporter. Thurlbeck was arrested on 5 April 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, and unlawful interception of voicemail messages, contrary to Section 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000. Thurlbeck was released on bail later the same day, and is due to return in September. Ian Edmondson [B], former News of the World news editor. Edmondson was arrested on 5 April 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, and unlawful interception of voicemail messages, contrary to Section 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000. He was released on bail later the same day, and is due to return in September. James Weatherup [C], a News of the Worldassistant news editor. Weatherup was arrested on 14 April 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the