A police officer has been charged over the alleged unauthorised access of the police computer system in the states north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In September 2025, officers attached to a northern region command commenced an investigation after reports an officer was illegally accessing private information and distributing restricted police data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, on Monday 30 March 2026, a 47-year-old man \u2013 a sergeant attached to a command in the northern region \u2013 was issued a Court Attendance Notice for access \/ modify restricted data held in computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He will appear before Belmont Local Court on Wednesday 13 May 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His employment status is under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A police officer has been charged over the alleged unauthorised access of the police computer system in the states north. In September 2025, officers attached to a northern region command commenced an investigation after reports an officer was illegally accessing private information and distributing restricted police data. Following inquiries, on Monday 30 March 2026, a … Continue reading “Officer charged after allegedly accessing restricted data \u2013 Northern Region”<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38186","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=38186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38187,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38186\/revisions\/38187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}