https://au.news.yahoo.com/cop-jailed-ov ... 14138.html
A police officer who was hailed a vigilante hero on social media for breaking into a convicted child sex offender's outback home, tying him up and stealing $100,000 in cash has been jailed.
The NSW officer, whose identity is protected by court orders, knew his 78-year-old victim had a stash of cash in a safe because he searched his home over a child sex offence in 2020.
Four years later, the officer and a co-offender drove from Sydney to break into the elderly man's home, borrowing a car, filling up jerry cans with petrol and leaving their mobile phones behind to avoid detection.