WPc 'spent her evenings as a prostitute'

A policewoman in New Zealand has avioded the sack despite revelations that she spends her evenings working as a prostitute.

The officer, who has not been named, was censured by her bosses but allowed to remain in her job after agreeing to give up her rather original night duties.

Prostitution is legal in New Zealand and police are allowed to take approved second jobs, but a senior officer said sex and law enforcement were not an acceptable combination.

Jon Neilson, a police spokesman, said the officer had taken up "secondary employment due to financial difficulties," for a brief period but had not sought police approval to work in the sex industry.