A police officer will appear in court today charged over online child abuse material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following a joint investigation into online child abuse material by the Australian Federal Police and the NSW Police Force\u2019s Professional Standards Command under Strike Force Lautersee, investigators executed a search warrant at Clemton Park yesterday (Thursday 2 October 2025), seizing electronic devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 26-year-old man \u2013 a constable attached to a command in the Central Metropolitan Region \u2013 was arrested and taken to Campsie Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was charged with four offences including possess child abuse data \u2013 use carriage service (two counts), transmit to self – child abuse matter by carriage service and use carriage service \u2013 solicit child abuse matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police will allege in court that the man uploaded child abuse material to a social media platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has been refused bail to appear at Bankstown Local Court today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The officer is suspended from duty without pay and his employment status is under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A police officer will appear in court today charged over online child abuse material. Following a joint investigation into online child abuse material by the Australian Federal Police and the NSW Police Force\u2019s Professional Standards Command under Strike Force Lautersee, investigators executed a search warrant at Clemton Park yesterday (Thursday 2 October 2025), seizing electronic … Continue reading “Police Officer charged over online child abuse material”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35224,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35223\/revisions\/35224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}