A female officer has been fired and convicted after letting her criminal boyfriend use her work phone to snoop on confidential records in Zurich
A ‘poster girl’ police officer who fronted glossy recruitment videos has been sacked and convicted after letting her criminal boyfriend use her work phone to snoop on confidential police databases, reports claim. The woman, a municipal police officer based in Zurich, Switzerland, in her 30s, had built an image as a model cop.
She regularly appeared in social media clips showing off day-to-day patrol life in a bid to inspire new recruits. But prosecutors say that behind the perfect social media image, she was improperly accessing restricted police databases for personal reasons – and passing on confidential information she found to friends, family and even people linked to Zurich’s criminal scene.
Swiss newspaper Tages‑Anzeiger, which said it had seen the penal orders in the case, reported that the misconduct first came to light after a jealousy-driven search.
The officer allegedly used police systems to check up on a woman connected to her then-boyfriend. Investigators say the officer logged into police systems to work out which woman her then-boyfriend was spending an evening with – identifying the “rival’s” car and even pulling up a photo.
She then allegedly boasted to a colleague about her mini-investigation. After that, authorities say she kept misusing professional databases, repeatedly accessing confidential information for private ends.
The most serious allegation came when she started a relationship with a 35-year-old man who already had convictions for drug offences – and who was later convicted of multiple rapes, 20 Minutes reported. According to the report, the officer went so far as to hand over her official work mobile phone, allowing him to look up his own police file and the details of other criminals.
The pair were eventually caught and the officer was arrested at the end of March 2025. She spent three days in custody, though a judge reportedly refused to place her in pre-trial detention.
She has since left policing and is now self-employed in the security sector. The former officer has now received a final conviction for repeated breaches of official secrecy.
Her sentence was set at 150 day-fines of 100 Swiss francs (£88) each, plus an additional 3,800-franc fine (£3,350) and 1,600 francs in legal costs (£1,410). Her boyfriend was also convicted of repeatedly inciting breaches of official secrecy.
He was handed 40 day-fines of 200 Swiss francs (£176) each and a further 2,000-franc fine (£1,760). In Switzerland, courts often use a “day-fine” system, where a sentence is calculated as a number of daily penalty units multiplied by a set amount.
As a result. the ex-officer will have to pay 15,000 francs in total (around £13,200) – plus a separate 3,800-franc fine (about £3,350) and 1,600 francs in legal costs (about £1,410).
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