A man who was training to be a police officer sent sexual messages and indecent images of himself to a nine-year-old girl.
Jason Hicks, 31, also persuaded the victim into sending him intimate photos, and tried to do the same with four other children. The offences were uncovered while Hicks was in training to be a police officer.
He was immediately arrested and suspended, and subsequently dismissed without notice. Officers found more than 1,200 indecent images and videos of children on his laptop, iPad and other digital devices seized when a warrant was carried out at his home.
