Auckland police officer pleads guilty to making, possessing intimate visual recordings of three women
An Auckland police officer has pleaded guilty to making and possessing intimate visual recordings of three women without their consent. The officer used his work-issued phone to covertly record victims and stored the files in a hidden app.
Why it matters
The case highlights a severe breach of public trust and professional ethics by a law enforcement official, raising concerns about the misuse of police technology.
The police officer has interim name suppression and was first charged in June. Photo / Supplied
A police officer secretly filmed a woman having sex with him before stowing the illicit clip away in a hidden app on his phone.
But she wasn’t the only woman he wronged.
Two other women sent him timed-to-disappear intimate content on social media, one by accident, and he covertly used his police-issued phone to record them.
The constable appeared in the Manukau District Court on Friday where he pleaded guilty to making an intimate visual recording and a representative charge of possessing one.
He faced three counts of making an intimate recording when he was first charged in June, but today one was amended to the representative charge. The other was dismissed.
Judge Ngaroma Tahana granted him interim name suppression to be argued at a hearing next week.
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