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11 January 2008

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A SENIOR constable showed his badge and told one of his alleged rape victims he was a policeman and would "look after her" when she woke up to find him performing oral sex on her.

The officer, Huy Quach, 33, was described in a Melbourne court yesterday as a sexual predator who misused his position as a Victorian police officer to ingratiate himself with potential victims and trade drugs for sex.

He allegedly raped a mentally ill woman after being sent to her home earlier in the day while on duty to check on her because she was considered suicidal.

Constable Quach also posted photographs of himself in his police uniform on his page on the RSVP.com.au dating website to lure women, and kept digital images of semi-nude women on his mobile phone, Melbourne Magistrates Court was told.

In April last year, while on patrol in a police divisional wagon, he stopped in the street to introduce himself to a group of young people before giving them a lift in the back of the van to a hotel and exchanging telephone numbers with two of the females.

A few days later he invited the two females, one aged 17, and their partners back to his eastern suburbs unit, where they tried on his uniform, Acting Senior Sergeant Peter Fogarty of the Ethical Standards Department said.

Constable Quach allegedly offered to supply the 17-year-old girl with cocaine before giving the two females large drinks of alcohol that they later told police they believed were spiked.

Constable Quach, who is suspended from duty, is facing four charges of rape involving three victims, 11 counts of trafficking, supplying and using drugs, two counts of offering bribes, two counts of misconduct while in public office and one count of attempting to pervert the course of justice. Yesterday's bail hearing was told that the offences occurred between 2004 and last year, and involved the drugs cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines.

In opposing bail, the prosecution claimed Constable Quach posed an unacceptable risk to the community if released.

Sergeant Fogarty said Constable Quach was a regular at nightclubs in Prahran and South Yarra, where he knew staff and had access to rear storage rooms. He would take females he met in the clubs into the backrooms and supply them with cocaine and other drugs in return for sex.

One alleged victim he met at the Q Bar nightclub in South Yarra in June last year remembered being put to bed, before awaking to find Constable Quach performing oral sex on her, Sergeant Fogarty said.

When the woman became distressed at what was happening, Constable Quach "produced his police ID and said he would look after her", Sergeant Fogarty said.

Defence lawyer Tony Hargreaves told the hearing that describing Constable Quach as a sexual predator was "improper".

He said one of the alleged rape victims was in a consensual sexual relationship with Constable Quach at the time and the mentally ill woman at no time verbally objected to having sex.

He claimed remanding his client in custody until a committal hearing later in the year would be particularly onerous because, as a police officer, Constable Quach would have to spend his time in jail under protection.

Magistrate Paul Smith adjourned the bail hearing until January 16 so a psychological assessment could be carried out on Constable Quach.

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