Police "filmed naked women from force helicopter"

ONE FORMER Rotherham police officer and one serving officer from the town have been sent to the Crown Court over allegations they filmed a couple having sex and took footage of a naked woman from a police helicopter.

Ex-PC Adrian Pogmore, of Guilthwaite Crescent, Whiston, appeared before magistrates in Sheffield today accused of one count of wilful misconduct in public office and three of wilful misconduct by misusing police resources.

The misconduct charge relates to “recording a naked person without her consent”, with the offence said to have occurred in August 2007.

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One misuse of resources charge is said to relate to recording a naked woman without her consent in in July 2008 at Doncaster.

The second relates to filming a “sex act” on the same date in Rotherham and the third to recording a naked person in July 2012 at Barnsley.

Four other men have also been charged over the same incidents.

Serving officer Lee Walls (46), of Southlands Way, Aston, faces one count of misconduct and is currently suspended from the force's operational support services department.

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Matthew Lucas (41) faces three counts of misconduct and is also suspended.

Matthew Loosemore (44), who was a South Yorkshire Police pilot before services transferred to the National Police Air Service in 2013, is accused of one count and retired pilot Malcolm Reeves (63) faces two.

All five men were ordered to appear before Sheffield Crown Court on June 7.

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