A NSW man training to be a police officer has been charged with trying to groom a 14-year-old girl online.
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The 25-year-old was arrested on Friday at the NSW Police Force Academy in Goulburn.
It’s alleged he made ‘‘sexually explicit and suggestive comments’’ to detectives from Western Australia who were posing as a 14-year-old girl in an internet chat room earlier this year.
Police say this happened over a number of days.The detectives referred the matter to NSW officers, who then arrested the man.
He has been expelled from the police academy and charged with using a carriage service to groom a person under 16 years for sexual activity.
Officers searched his accommodation at the academy and seized a number of electronic items that police allege he used to communicate with who he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
AAP
