Police officer chargedin Brisbane

The Queensland Police Service has charged a male police officer following investigations into the alleged sexual assault of a woman while off-duty in 1999.

Detectives from the Child Abuse and Sexual Crime Group charged the 52-year-old male commissioned officer with one count of rape today.

The woman, who was known to the man, was 27 years old at the time of the alleged offence.

He is due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on January 19.

The officer has been suspended from duty with the Queensland Police Service.

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