Officers in the Strathclyde Police force are “bound to be” accepting money for information, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.Chief Constable Stephen House said the force has investigated 45 suspected leaks to the press in the past five years.He told the inquiry: “I have no doubt that there are specific individuals in my organisation who are in receipt of money from various people."I’m not suggesting its individual newspaper but various people...that is inevitable. Bound to be happening.”He said most of the leaks concerned the arrest or questioning of celebrities.He said: “That’s effectively where the money would be, so yes, it’s the newspapers – the reporters and photographers – being on the doorstep of the police office as a celebrity is released and that shouldn’t happen.“Most of them are unsubstantiated. That does mean to say there weren’t actually leaks, but it means that we can’t prove them. “He later added: “People talk within the organisation. Celebrities are by nature known, so word of mouth will quickly get around that so-and-so is in custody and it will go almost viral in that way.”House said the force had suffered from leaks on tactical information relating to police investigations, especially homicide cases, meaning certain material cannot be used in court cases.The chief constable said he did not think in general officers had an “untapped desire” to speak to the media, but said local press had more direct access to community inspectors to discuss “low level stories”.He told the inquiry all national press contact comes through the corporate communications department, whereas local journalists are able to speak to officers directly.He said: “There are situations where officers will say things – I’d be delighted for individual officers of very junior rank to be talking to the media about specific cases that they’re involved with... it’s when it becomes more around the closing of a police office and you then get a situation where the local media want to talk to a sergeant or a constable about, ‘what do you think about this’.”He added: “I don’t meet individual media for stories without someone from the media department present recording it. That’s a policy I’ve adopted through learning harsh lessons when I was in the Met.”House said he meets with incoming editors over coffee to introduce himself and discuss the force’s media “set-up”. He said contact with journalists was useful as long as it is in the public good and not serving private interests.Rob Shorthouse, director of communications for Strathclyde Police, denied any leaks had come from his department.He told the inquiry: “There's absolutely nothing to suggest at all that we have an issues with leaks coming from the media office.”He said non-attributable conservations with journalists are not encouraged, and all on or off-the-record contact with the media is logged by the department.Shorthouse said his staff are dedicated to making sure there is a quick turnaround on information provided to journalists, but said the internet had made this more difficult in recent years.He added: “The change in the nature of the media at the moment is huge... It’s going to make that need to be more immediate and over away from the traditional roles that journalists have played.”The editor of the Herald, Jonathan Russell, appeared before the inquiry for the second time, having given evidence during module one. He said the paper had a "generally healthy relationship" with the Strathclyde force but admitted journalists would always want more information from the police.He added: "It had to be a mutually beneficial relationship... we provide a very important service to the police in terms of looking for witnesses and helping in solving crimes."It isn’t perfect, we don’t always get what we would want – I’m fairly sure they don’t always get the coverage they would want – but I think generally it works pretty well for both sides."Russell told Lord Justice Leveson the Herald's relationship with Strathclyde was a "good template" for proper interaction between police and press.