Police officer to stand trial on rape charges
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A police officer has appeared in court accused of raping two women - including allegedly attacking one while in his uniform.
He was also charged with indecently assaulted a third woman, and indecently communicating with another.
The officer, from North Ayrshire, denied the charges, which span between 2005 and 2015.
The trial was scheduled to begin next January in Edinburgh.
The sergeant faced the accusations during a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow.
It was claimed he raped a woman at a house in East Ayrshire between August 2013 and April 2015, while "in police uniform". Prosecutors listed an alternative accusation of sexually coercing her.
A separate charge claimed the officer raped the same woman again in 2015 and while in uniform.
'Indecent communication'
The indictment also alleged he raped a second woman between 2006 and 2007 in Glasgow.
He was further alleged to have indecently assaulted a third woman in Glasgow between 2005 and 2008.
Prosecutors also alleged that he did "communicate indecently" with a fourth female "in person" and "by means of telephone calls and police radio".
He was also alleged to have accessed the Scottish Intelligence Database to get information on a number of women.
The officer denied all of the charges against him.