According to a recent statement by a privacy group called Privacy International, London’s Metropolitan Police is investigating the group’s privacy complaint against Internet search giant Google. The complaint filed by the group pertains to Google’s controversial wireless collection of consumers’ personal information.

Privacy International further added that the police had told the group that an initial probe might take eight to ten days, subsequent to which the case will be brought to a specialist team.

Though there has been no official confirmation from the Metropolitan Police press office about the probe initiated against Google, the Internet search company has been widely criticized worldwide for having collected users’ personal data, while collecting information for its Street View service.

Acknowledging the issue in May this year, Google has stated that the personal data sent by users over wireless networks had been “by mistake” collected by the company’s Street View cars that have been taking panoramic pictures of the world’s city streets for the service for years.

The Privacy International disclosure about the initiation of UK probe against Google follows several earlier reports about a number of overseas investigations as well as class actions lawsuits that Google is facing for having apparently violated the privacy laws of different countries.

Even the US has embarked on a multi-state investigation against Google; and an informal investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission.