Police officers charged with multiple offences

The officers cannot be named for legal reasons

A serving police officer and a former police officer have been charged with a range of offences.

These include misconduct in public office, accessing police computers and taking and sharing images of dead bodies.

Further offences include supplying Class B drugs and the attempted supply of Class C drugs.

The former officer is also charged with obtaining an image from a PSNI record of Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly.

He faces a total of 22 charges, including one of disclosing sensitive information relating to two children.

A serving female police officer, who is currently suspended from duty, has been charged with offences including misconduct in connection with a death by stealing medication prescribed to the deceased.

She is also charged with stealing cannabis during a drug seizure.

The pair, whose addresses were given as care of Woodbourne PSNI Station in Belfast, were granted an interim anonymity order based on a potential risk to their lives.

Counsel for the policewoman, Mark Farrell, told the court: "The defendant I represent was served with a TM1 [threat management] message over the weekend, saying her life was in immediate danger."

A lawyer representing the former officer confirmed he has received four similar warnings about a threat to his life.

"It's real and imminent," the solicitor added.

The alleged offences were committed over a five-year period between July 2012 and September 2017.