By Police1 Staff
SOUTH YORKSHIRE, England — An ex-officer who used a police helicopter to film a couple having sex was sentenced Friday to a year in prison.
Adrian Pogmore, who was fired in 2015, plead guilty to four counts of misconduct in a public office, Sky News reported. He used the South Yorkshire Police helicopter to film a couple having sex on their patio, a woman sunbathing naked and two naturists sitting outside a caravan.
Judge Peter Kelson QC told Pogmore, 50, that his crimes were “offensive and invasive.”
“In short, you used a £2m helicopter which costs something like $1,000 an hour to run to advance your own sexual curiosities when it should have been detecting crime,” Kelson said. “You, quite literally, considered yourself above the law. Nobody is above the law.”
Two other officers and two pilots who were in the helicopter when the video was filmed were cleared of misconduct.
South Yorkshire police are continuing with their internal investigations against all the officers.
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