UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By AMANDA WILLIAMS
Officers working on Operation Yewtree – the police probe sparked by disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile – have earned almost half a million pounds overtime.
The cost is in addition to the £2.2million basic bill for the operation, which has led to the arrests of a string of high profile stars.
Campaign group, the Taxpayers’ Alliance, has labeled the overtime costs – racked up in just ten months – ‘scandalously large’.
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