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Accusation: Police officer tried to hack 140 colleagues' phones | India | DR According to the prosecutor, this is a very serious case. A now former employee of the East Jutland Police has been charged in a case. has indicted a man in his 40s who is accused of hacking and of attempting to hack the cell phones of 140 employees. In several of the cases, he was given access to humiliating material. who has experienced this here.Senior prosecutor Maria Fanø-FredløkkeAf, which Nyheder has received, the man is accused of a total of 12 matters, which extends over a period of 11 years before he was arrested in March last year. According to the accusation, the circumstances are committed against both former colleagues, friends and acquaintances, but also against random individuals from whom he bought used hard drives, after which he recovered and found private and humiliating content. , that about 140 police officers had their mobile phones hacked by the accused. For some, it only happened once, while other mobile phones were hacked up to 30 times. In addition, he is accused of having filmed a female employee through a keyhole to a changing room at the police station in Aarhus. According to senior plaintiff Maria Fanø-Fredløkke are "serious" accusations. - Cases where there are so many people who have been violated are incredibly serious. One should not underestimate how uncomfortable it is for those who have experienced this. - It cuts me especially in the heart, both the breach of trust in relation to the colleagues he has had and to his friends and acquaintances, she says. took its start when colleagues in the police began to wonder, explains Maria Fanø-Fredløkke. Normally when police officers are accused of crime, it is the Independent Police Complaints Authority that is responsible. But in this case it has been the police because the man has been a civilian employee. To avoid a possible dispute about impartiality, however, it has been the Funen Police who have investigated the case, even though the man was employed by the East Jutland Police. Henrik Garlik, does not wish to comment. It is therefore not known how the man relates to the indictment. The man has also been charged with abusing his position in the police to gain access to investigative material. This has, among other things, meant that he illegally gained access to humiliating material. with a large number of private individuals.- We are very aware of information security. We are very proper, and we do everything to treat people in a proper and correct way, and when something like this happens, I get scared that some will not show us the trust that you have with the police, says Maria Fanø- Fredløkke. In general, it is a focus area for the police to ensure that their employees do not turn up in cases that they have nothing to do with. Among other things, an officer from the Copenhagen Police is currently facing a fine because, according to the prosecution, he a large number of searches in the police systems on, among other things, himself and his family. This is when the case against the former employee of the East Jutland Police will go to court.