Detective also charged with accessing or modifying restricted data held in a computer
A New South Wales Police detective who was allegedly in intimate relationships with two organised crime figures has been charged with misconduct in public office over her alleged access to confidential police information.
Investigators from the NSW Police Professional Standards Command, working under Strike Force Brena, arrested the officer at 4:42 a.m. on 24 September, according to The Daily Telegraph. She was charged with misconduct in public office and with accessing or modifying restricted data held in a computer.
Police allege the detective, who was married at the time, was in a relationship with a crime figure described in police documents filed in court as a convicted killer.
In recent months, police allegedly found she had also begun a second, newer relationship with another organised crime figure.
The investigation began after "highly sensitive" intelligence was discovered on the phone of one of the men, prompting an internal search for the source of the leak, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Court documents cited by the publication include text messages allegedly exchanged between the officer and one of the men, including one that read "I love u."
When the man allegedly asked her to look up information on another crime figure he suspected of stealing drugs, she allegedly agreed.
The officer appeared before Fairfield Local Court on the day of her arrest and was refused bail.
'Excessive' access to police records
An audit of police computer records allegedly showed the detective had been checking the status of investigations into several high-profile crime figures, including members and associates of the Alameddine crime network.
Court documents cited by The Daily Telegraph describe the accesses as "excessive and outside ordinary scope of her duties," noting that many of the individuals had been overseas for some time.
Police also allege she accessed confidential information about serious crimes as investigations were under way. These included the fatal shooting of plumber John Versace at Condell Park in May 2025, which she is accused of looking up the following morning, as well as shootings in Merrylands and Auburn in the weeks that followed.
Over the past 12 months, she also allegedly searched records relating to the murders of Abdullah Bahsa in Lidcombe and Jack Cheung in Carlingford.
Court documents further allege that in March last year, the officer searched her own mobile phone number on internal police systems to check whether it was under investigation.
Details of her role and the case can now be reported after The Daily Telegraph successfully challenged a suppression order on Wednesday.
The court ruled her identity must remain suppressed, and she is to be referred to only as "HW" because of concerns for her safety. The order was finalised in Parramatta Local Court.
