There is no evidence of endemic corruption between police officers and the press, the chief executive of the Independent Police Complaints Commission has said.Jane Furniss told the Leveson Inquiry she had prepared a report on investigating corruption in the police for the Home Secretary that would be ready “imminently”, and said it could be provided to the inquiry before publication.She said: "It doesn't reveal endemic corruption between police officers and journalists. It's much wider... it will provide a lot of context."Furniss said between 2010 and 2011 there had been 1,279 complaints about improper disclosures of information by police, but said some would have been “someone who’s looking to see whether his daughter’s new boyfriend is a suitable young man".She added: “There are often times when people believe that information has found its way into the press as a result of leaking when actually it's the result of people both in the police, in the IPCC, in public bodies having information and other members of families, friends, individuals providing information, and journalists - who are good at this - add it all together and then it looks as if someone has leaked information."Furniss told the inquiry hospitality between press and police was appropriate as long as it is not frequent, regular or lavish, and said guidelines reflected that journalists meet with officers because they want information.She added: “I don’t think alcohol and work mix, generally, and certainly not when you’re dealing with very sensitive issues.”Sir Hugh Orde, president of ACPO and former chief constable of the Northern Ireland Police Service, said chief constables would gather to discuss new national media and hospitality next month.He said the Met was different from regional forces, and officers need more support in in dealing with the media due to the “sheer intensity and scale” of the force, but said standards should apply across the police service.He added: “We need to be careful not to become so rigid and so bound by rules that we actually spoil what is a crucial relationship with the media and that officers don't feel too fettered in having sensible, professional conversations across all ranks.”Orde said a “silly story” he had designed his own uniform had left him with a sense the Press Complaints Commission and the press had a “powerful/powerless relationship”.He added: “The current system of redress did not do anything satisfactory in terms of getting the story withdrawn, or indeed any sort of apology issued, my sense was that the commission didn’t really have the powers that would have influenced an editor in a way to change the story.”Chief Constable Andrew Trotter, of the British Transport Police and head of the Association of Chief Police Officers communication advisory group, said he had several discussions with officers dealing with press in the Milly Dowler murder investigation, and high-profile serial murders carried out by Derrick Bird and Raoul Moat.He said: “The sheer volume of the national media descending upon a small community can have quite an impact, in all sorts of ways.“The pursuing of witnesses, the pursuing of subjects, castings doubt on the ability of the local force to cope with this particular challenge, casting doubt on the ability of the senior investigating officer, putting up the long-retired police officers and other experts to comment upon a police investigation.“There are a range of concerns raised by colleagues around the country about the conduct of the press in various major investigations and operations over the last couple of years.”Trotter appeared alongside colleague Joanne Bird, head of media and marketing for the force, who said journalists sometimes obtained the names of individuals killed on public transport from social networking sites or witness, before the family has been notified.Oliver Cattermole, director of communications for ACPO, said had occasionally accepted a meal or coffee from journalists in the context of work meetings.He told the inquiry: “It’s perhaps just to provide an environment where you can take more time over a more detailed discussion to provide the kind of background that previous witnesses have discussed.He said communications were a critical part of policing, and the sections of the Filkin report on openness are important.Chief Constable Matthew Baggott of the Police Service Northern Ireland appeared with the force’s head of corporate communications, Liz Young.Young said national journalists could be ignorant of sensitive issues around Northern Ireland’s history.She said: “Sometimes just actually using a word in the wrong context, a phrase in the wrong way, can actually be translated in a very different way than its actually meant... the national media aren't aware.”Baggott added: “[There are] consequences of creating a sound but without developing the context.”Baggott, previously chief constable for Leicestershire Police, told the inquiry he had written two letters to national newspaper editors urging them to stop printing speculative reports on the Madeleine McCann case.The second letter stated: “We have an extensive audit trail of both headlines and reporting which have no apparent basis in reality.”Baggott said he had not received a “hugely positive” response as stories had continued to be published. He said local residents had complained about the press intrusion.He added: “There was a variety of complaints around disruption to daily life, which was caused by a large international media descending for the long term and the disruption that caused to peoples businesses."Secondly if I recall, [there was] the intrusiveness of asking residents about their thoughts, what had happened, and a degree of speculation... the media going in and asking questions.”