Serving police officer charged with an indecent assault

Serving police officer charged with an indecent assault Thames Valley Police has charged a serving...

Elliot Shaw

Published: 5:00 pm April 17, 2019

Updated: 5:01 am October 8, 2025

Serving police officer charged with an indecent assault

Thames Valley Police has charged a serving police officer in connection with an indecent assault.

James Chapman, aged 43, a sergeant based in West Berkshire Local Policing Area, was arrested on 17 September last year. He was charged via postal requisition today (17/4) with indecent assault on a girl under 14 years old.

The charge is in connection with an incident at a property in Oxford in 1991.

Chapman is due to appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on 21 May.

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