The 26-yer-old PC has been chagred with sex ­offences and suspended from duty by West Midlands Police

A police officer has been charged with sex ­offences following a Sunday Mirror investigation.

PC Anthony Fellows, 26, is accused of sending a girl of 15 a sexually explicit photograph and obtaining personal data about her.

He allegedly made the contact via the adult dating site Badoo.

Fellows, a PC for four years, has been suspended from duty by West Midlands Police and faces jail if ­convicted.

It comes after we saw the photograph and messages between the pair and alerted police.

After we handed over our dossier, officers from an ­internal disciplinary unit swooped on Fellows’ home.

They are thought to have seized mobile phones and computer equipment.

Fellows has been charged with “attempting to cause a child under 16 to look at an image of a person engaging in sexual activity”.

He is also accused of ­obtaining personal data in a way that breaches the Data Protection Act.

He is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

A police source said: “It’s the talk of the station. It’s not often you get a serving police officer in the dock. If convicted, it will be the end of his career.”

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