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Newcastle Herald
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Police officer accessed restricted data to feed info to mate about DV case

A Lake Macquarie police sergeant has admitted to accessing restricted data to pass information to a former colleague about an ongoing domestic violence investigation into him.

Sergeant Shannon Daniel Cooper, 47, appeared in Belmont Local Court on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to the unauthorised access of restricted information in the police computer system, known as COPS.

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