A YOUNG woman with a long history of serious mental illness became a NSW police officer even though personality tests raised serious concerns, a court has heard.
Her duties exacerbated her condition, resulting in criminal behaviour and lying to the Police Integrity Commission (PIC).
Jenna Lee Hughes, 24, wept in the dock as her psychologist gave evidence during sentencing proceedings in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court on Thursday.
Hughes had previously pleaded guilty to two charges of misconduct as a police officer and two charges of lying to the PIC when giving evidence about corruptly using the police database.
She accessed the database on two separate occasions without justification to benefit a boyfriend and a former boyfriend.
Hughes is no longer a police officer.
The court heard that at the age of nine she found her neighbour dead from a gunshot wound.
That same year, she was inside a bank with her family during an armed hold-up.
As a teen, she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression.
At age 18, she applied to become a police officer and did not reveal her condition.
But while in the police academy, she was administered a personality test that returned adverse results.
"The results indicate a number of scales that were questionable, certainly of somebody that was entering the police force," her psychologist Anne Marie De Santa Brigida told the court.
"It is of concern she still made it into the police force."
She also said Hughes would have been suffering from her mental conditions at the time she committed the offences, which carry possible jail time.
The sentencing proceedings are continuing before Judge Mark Marien.
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