child abuse images - some featuring infants. Ryan David Anderson, a 39-year-old now former officer who had been based in the Scottish Borders, found himself in the dock after Cumbrian counterparts called at his Carlisle home on May 11.
A total of 724 illegal still and moving pictures of youngsters had been downloaded, including 149 classed in category A, the most serious.
Prosecutor Alison Mather told Carlisle Crown Court: “Many of these images are of very small children, if not babies.”He admitted seven offences.
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