EXCLUSIVE: I'M NOT FILMING UP SKIRTS I'M SPYING ON AL-QAEDA

EXCLUSIVE Anti-terror cop held over hidden camera antics
UK Mirror
Jul. 27, 2006

A DETECTIVE was arrested for allegedly filming up women's skirts with a hidden camera.

The married anti-terrorist officer told police he was working undercover to video al-Qaeda suspects. But back at the station they found his camera had close-ups of bottoms and knickers.

He was nabbed by a plain-clothes team watching out for perverts and paedophiles in Trafalgar Square, Central London, on Tuesday. A police source claimed the man, a Scotland Yard surveillance expert with more than 20 years' experience, had the camera hidden in a sports bag. He added: "The officer used surveillance techniques for his own perverted hobby - taking pictures up women's skirts.

"It was one of the year's hottest days and Trafalgar Square was packed with young women in skimpy clothes. When officers moved in, he told them he was a cop on an anti-terror operation.

"But the pictures were not of terrorist suspects planning a bombing, they were of knickers."

The officer was arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance. He has been suspended.

j.edwards@mirror.co.uk