A BARROW police officer visited a woman for sex while he was on duty and would turn his radio ‘up loud’ in case he was called to a job, a police misconduct hearing has heard.

PC Matt Simpson, an officer in Barrow for six years, met the woman through dating app Badoo, the hearing heard during its first day yesterday.

The misconduct panel heard the pair began chatting via Snapchat before meeting up in person towards the end of 2014.

The 29-year-old officer visited the home of the Barrow mum, who cannot be identified, on more than 20 occasions in the early hours of the morning to have sex, she said. Each visit lasted between 30 minutes and an hour.

The woman said PC Simpson 'sometimes didn't even take his pants off properly in case he had to rush off to a job’.

"He brought the police vehicle and he turned the radio on loud when he came round so he would hear if his collar number got said," she added.

"When we were messaging he would say he was waiting for it to go quiet or for a vehicle to become available."

PC Simpson wore a body camera which, she said, ‘a couple of times’ was accidentally switched on ‘when we were having a cuddle after sex’. He also had a baton and his handcuffs.

The officer also had a Taser with him on one occasion, she said, and he would park a police van in her street but not directly outside her home so it didn't appear suspicious.

Giving evidence in the hearing yesterday, the woman said their relationship ended at the beginning of 2016, just before she found out she was pregnant.

She then bumped into PC Simpson and his girlfriend, who was also pregnant, at an antenatal clinic.

It was not made clear, during the hearing, who the father of the woman's baby is.

The woman said she and PC Simpson last had sex when she was heavily pregnant. She said this was around a month after PC Simpson’s girlfriend had given birth to a boy.

Police were told about the couple’s relationship by the woman's new partner who had become paranoid about PC Simpson.

Her new partner saw one of the messages PC Simpson had sent to the woman in August 2018.

He sent her a picture of himself in his police uniform and suggested he could ‘come round’ for sex after her new partner had gone to work.

However, the woman said she told PC Simpson that would not happen as she was in a new relationship.

"I told him I couldn't see him anymore because I was with (someone new) and Matt said if you get bored of (him) I can come round," the woman said.

When she was quizzed by PC Simpson's superiors the woman initially said they did not have sex on duty but she then admitted he had been on duty 'on more than 20 occasions'.

"I knew the only thing he could get in trouble for was him having sex on duty," she said.

"I had no reason for them to find out about him but I knew I would be in trouble if they found out I had been lying to them.

"He had slept with me behind the back of the woman he was having a baby with. If she found out I would get the backlash."

The force also alleges PC Simpson accessed the woman’s police record when he had no appropriate reason to do so.

Having sex while on duty is one of six conduct breaches Cumbria Police allege against PC Simpson.

He is also accused of possessing ‘extreme porn’ from a WhatsApp group chat called Baldy Stag.

The porn included a video of someone having sex with a snake and a video of a stiletto heel being inserted into a man’s penis.

Cumbria Police say possessing the images was ‘illegal and discreditable’.

Simon Walsh, representing the constabulary, said a case had been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service.

“The CPS have decided, in this case, that it is not in the public interest to prosecute,” Mr Walsh added.

Ben Summers, counsel for PC Simpson, said the officer denies having sex while on duty.

The misconduct hearing, at Cumbria Police HQ in Penrith, is expected to last four days.