Police officer faces the sack over 100 indecent images of children

A WEST Yorkshire Police officer could be sacked later this month after he was caught with more than 100 indecent images of children.

Police constable Alan Dudzinski, 21, was given a suspended prison sentence at Durham Crown Court in April, after he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children and one count of possessing extreme pornography.

The officer, who was based in Leeds but has been suspended since he was arrested, will face a misconduct hearing on June 21 and he could be dismissed from the force.

He was arrested at home in May 2021, shortly after he finished his training, and 125 indecent images and videos of young girls and boys were found on his phone and a computer.

Forty six of the images were category A – the most serious – and they depicted girls as young as six being abused.

Officers found another 41 category B images, 34 at category C images, featuring victims as young as three, and also four images depicting beasitality.

Dudzinski’s barrister, Bo-Eun Jung, said the officer was “genuinely remorseful for his actions”.

Judge Ray Singh imposed a sentence of eight months’ imprisonment – suspended for two years – and a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.

He said an “appropriate punishment can be achieved without an immediate sentence”, as Dudzinski had no previous convictions and he posed a relatively low risk to the public.

It comes after South Yorkshire Police announced two officers had been dismissed for gross misconduct, after they used the force’s computer system for “nonpolicing” purposes.

Police constable Inderjit Bassi misused the computer system in March 2020 and police constable Charlotte Kaill committed similar offences in August 2019 and February 2021.