Overview
- Police in Hamburg suspended a 28-year-old officer after a hidden camera was reportedly found in the women’s showers at Police Station 14.
- The Internal Investigations Division took over the case, opened disciplinary proceedings, and the police chief ordered the officer off duty with his badge and weapon surrendered.
- Investigators searched the station and the officer’s home and seized computers, data carriers, and other electronics for review.
- Digital forensics experts from the state criminal office are analyzing the seized data to see whether any intimate images exist or were shared online, findings that could drive criminal charges and job consequences.
- BILD reports that investigators placed their own camera that recorded the suspect checking the device in the women’s area, a detail authorities have not confirmed.