A “sex-obsessed” police officer who used his force helicopter to film people having sex has been jailed.<\/p>\n
“Team deviant” Adrian Pogmore admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office. He was jailed for a year.<\/p>\n
Two other officers and two pilots were\u00a0cleared of misconduct<\/a>\u00a0following a three-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court.<\/p>\n Pogmore, 51, from Whiston in Rotherham, was described as “a swinging and sex-obsessed air observer”.<\/p>\n Sentencing him, Judge Peter Kelson QC told Pogmore: “You spied on and recorded these naked people from a height of 1,000ft.<\/p>\n “You quite literally considered yourself above the law.”<\/p>\n The judge described Pogmore as a “rogue police officer” whose actions had been “offensive and invasive”.<\/p>\n “In short, you used a \u00a32m helicopter which costs something like 1,000 dollars (sic) an hour to run to advance your own sexual curiosities when it should have been detecting crime,” he said.<\/p>\n “Instead of deterring and detecting crime, you were committing crime.<\/p>\n “So strong were your sexual urges that you were willing to take, and did take, substantial risks of being detected by your colleagues in the helicopter at the time.”<\/p>\n The intrusive filming took place on four occasions between 2007 and 2012 when Pogmore was part of the South Yorkshire Police Air Support Unit.<\/p>\n The footage included a couple sitting naked by a caravan and a woman sunbathing naked with her daughters.<\/p>\n A couple who Pogmore knew were also filmed having sex on their patio.<\/p>\n Pogmore had been described in court by other members of the air support unit as the “team deviant”.<\/p>\n He was sacked by South Yorkshire Police in 2015 following an internal misconduct hearing.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"