Ex senior cop is allegedly caught with 168 hours of video showing sickening child sexual abuse

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A former Victoria Police senior constable has been charged after he was allegedly caught with 168 hours of sickening child sexual abuse footage.

Alan Hawley, 49, was hit with 110 criminal charges after he was allegedly found to possess 19,856 images and videos of child abuse across six devices.

The former senior constable fronted Melbourne Magistrates’ Court late last year where he indicated he would plead guilty to the charges.

Court documents obtained by the Herald Sun allege nearly half of the files depicted real children under the age of 13, while more than half were teenagers.

A large number of ‘computer-generated’ child abuse material was also allegedly located on the devices, including two phones, three USBs and an SD card.

The combined ‘playing time’ of the footage amounted to more than 168 hours of children being ‘sexually exploited/abused’, the documents state.

It’s understood Hawley retired from the force after he was arrested last January.

He had been a senior constable working as a leading crime scene officer at the Sunshine Police Station in Melbourne’s west and had spent 11 years as a cop.

Alan Hawley, 49, was hit with 110 criminal charges after he was allegedly found to possess 19,856 images and videos of child abuse across six devices (stock image)

The former senior constable fronted Melbourne Magistrates’ Court (pictured) late last year where he indicated he would plead guilty to the charges

Hawley had been at home with his wife when police arrived at the property to arrest him last January, according to court documents.

‘Do you know why we are here?’ the officers asked him.

‘Yep. Child exploitation,’ he replied.

He was charged with 34 counts of producing child abuse material, 36 counts of transmitting child abuse material, 22 counts of using a carriage service to cause offence and six counts of possessing child abuse material, among other charges.

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