The Met police commissioner has warned against jumping to conclusions after a police officer was arrested on suspicion of leaking details of the Andrew Mitchell case to a newspaper.
"There is more to this than meets the eye," Bernard Hogan-Howe told the BBC.
Met Police Federation chairman John Tully has suggested the arrest may have been disproportionate.
But Mr Hogan-Howe said: "When people hear the full story they will support what we've done."
A Diplomatic Protection Squad officer was arrested on Saturday by officers investigating how national newspapers came to publish police records of an incident at Downing Street, which involved the then chief whip, Andrew Mitchell, allegedly calling police officers "plebs".
The officers had refused to let him cycle through the main gate to Downing Street.
'Proportionality'Mr Mitchell apologised for not having shown enough respect to the police but maintained that he "did not use the words attributed to me".
However, he quit the government over the affair a few weeks later, after the official police log of the row was allegedly leaked and published by the Daily Telegraph and the Sun newspapers.
Mr Hogan-Howe said: "There's some difficulty in me talking about it, there's an on-going criminal investigation, and also it's now supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
"I also hope people will understand that there is more to this than meets the eye, and I'm afraid I'm constrained in explaining that, but when people hear the full story they will support what we've done.
"As usual in any investigation, you have to go where the evidence takes you, and we got some new information - we acted on it quickly."
Mr Tully had told the Daily Telegraph: "The thing which disappointed me is around the proportionality of whether it was necessary to arrest the individual. After all, he is a serving police officer.
"Clearly it needs to be resolved, because there are things that we shouldn't talk about as police officers, and this may be one of those cases."
The officer claims that he witnessed the row, but the IPCC has said it is now "considering the validity of the officer's claim", which he apparently made to his local MP.
He was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, and has been suspended from duty.
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