Police constable jailed for voyeurism offences committed over almost two years
Coventry-based Alexander Hindmarsh resigned from West Midlands Police after making dozens of films of other men without their consent.
A police officer who covertly recorded men using public toilets and showers for his own sexual gratification has been jailed for 19 months.
Alexander Hindmarsh, who resigned from West Midlands Police after carrying out the “horrible” offences over a period of almost two years, pleaded guilty at a previous hearing.
The 32-year-old, of Dulverton Avenue, Coventry, was also ordered to register as a sex offender at Birmingham Crown Court on Wednesday, after being told his claims in police interviews of “consensual voyeurism” were absurd lies.
Prosecutor Robert Tolhurst told the hearing that Hindmarsh, described as being on a “fast-track” route to the rank of inspector, was chased and detained by members of the public and shop security guards in Coventry on November 13 last year.
The court heard the constable, who was on annual leave, had been apprehended after a victim spotted him using his phone to film over the wall of a toilet cubicle at Coventry’s Cannon Park Shopping Centre.
Mr Tolhurst told the court that Hindmarsh was taken to a custody block at Perry Barr in Birmingham, while officers searched his home.
