Constable Au Kar-man, 47, previously pleaded guilty to soliciting an advantage by a prescribed officer and another count of accepting an advantage, after prosecutors agreed to drop a second solicitation charge provided that she admit liability.

She was also involved in a HK$530,000 money laundering case and had earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The court heard that Au joined the police force in 1994 and had been posted to the Eastern District crime investigation team since July 2019.

Passing sentence, magistrate Lau Suk-han slammed Au for deliberately breaking the law as a police officer and have failed to handle cases impartially, thus, humiliating the police force.

However, considering Au being a tainted ?witness to testify against others in the case and her guilty plea, Au was sentenced one year and nine months in jail for both cases.