Cops everywhere seem to be corrupted, guess they feel like they are above the law!
Jun 17 2010
A TRAFFIC cop who bribed women drivers for sex has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.
Jamie Slater, 33, of Sandfields, Port Talbot, had worked as a police officer in Brackla and around the Bridgend area.
Cardiff Crown Court heard the married father-of-two stalked female motorists after stopping them for traffic offences across South Wales.
In October 2008, he stopped a married mother at midnight when she popped out to a garage in Bridgend to top up a credit card in order to buy car insurance online. She was wearing a coat over her pyjamas.
Discovering she was uninsured, Slater impounded her car, offered to drive her back home and detoured all over the M4, complimenting her and telling her his marriage was rocky.
He tried to kiss her and later, when she refused to meet up with him, sent her sexual messages, went to her home and sat outside her place of work for 20 minutes at a time.
When she changed her shift patterns, then her car, to deter him, he sent her a picture of herself in the new vehicle.
After her court appearance for the insurance offence, Slater sent a message hoping she and her husband, whose name he had got through police records, would “rot in hell”.
“I felt as if I was being stalked,” she said.
The court heard how Slater would stop women for minor road traffic offences, then ask for their mobile phone numbers.
Four of his eight victims were targeted in this way – two were prostitutes who knew him as a customer, one was a crime victim and one a 19-year-old girl.
The court heard Slater even took one woman on an emergency call when their sex session was interrupted by his police radio.
Peter Davies, prosecuting, said: “They felt powerless to take any steps because he was a police officer in uniform at the time. Out of the blue, [the 19-year-old] had a text message one day using her name and saying ‘Hi, fancy meeting up for no strings sex and fun’.”
The messages continued – up to 35 on one day in May last year – letting her know he knew where she lived and what car she drove. She had no idea who he was but agreed to meet him to flush him out.
As she watched the arranged meeting place from a distance he pulled up in his patrol car. When she went to the police, she received a text begging her “please don’t go down that route – I’m gonna lose everything”. The court heard that out of all the victims, she was the only one unaware he was a police officer.
Tom Crowther, defending, said Slater had qualified as a building surveyor but achieved his ambitions to join the police in 2001.
He set up a driving school when he couldn’t make ends meet on his police salary, but was still in debt despite working day and night, and became depressed.
Speaking after sentencing, IPCC Commissioner for Wales Tom Davies said: “This rogue officer was brought to account after two brave women went to the police.
“Slater was a rotten apple and acted alone. The public can be reassured that cases such as these are very rare, but where officers act in a criminal way they will be brought to account.”
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