A POLICE officer was jailed for three years yesterday for having oral sex with vulnerable women while on duty.

Adam Rushton, who was branded “a disgrace to the police service” on his conviction last month, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday for five counts of misconduct.

The most serious incident involved a very vulnerable victim whom he visited in uniform at her home.

PC Rushton made up the reason for the visit, accusing her over a “bogus cyber-bullying issue,” and convinced her to show him her private parts under the auspices of his fake investigation.

The 37-year-old, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, was also found guilty of breaching data protection laws while an officer with Staffordshire Police based in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.

During his three-week trial, PC Rushton admitted that some of his actions were “not very professional” but denied that they amounted to criminal conduct.

Judge Murray Creed, sentencing, said: “This case is a personal tragedy for you and your family. As a police officer, you were in a position of trust with the public.”

Judge Creed said PC Rushton had come across his victims “at a stage when people were in vulnerable periods of their lives.”

He said: “There was distress caused to those victims, some of them, self-evident during their evidence.”

Judge Creed added it was concerning to hear that colleagues had tried to warn PC Rushton over his behaviour and that, on one occasion, “you did not tell the truth to senior officers seeking to help you.”

The offences spanned four years, from 2008 to 2012, and involved five women in all.