Clifford Kelway Pope (32) also made lewd advances towards a financial adviser about the same time, the Dunedin District Court was told yesterday.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of misusing a telephone and was sentenced to 18 months’ intensive supervision and 80 hours’ community work.
Pope met the experienced female constable in December 2021.
Judge Michael Turner said there were several complaints from the public about the defendant’s sexual comments, and the officer had worked with him to find a treatment programme catering to his needs.
She left a business card containing her contact details and visited his home on several occasions during the course of the investigation.
The court heard she was always accompanied by another officer and all conversations related to the ongoing case.
On December 5 last year, after eight months without contact, Pope sent the victim a message telling her he had been fantasising about her, asking if she wanted to have sex with him.
In another message just hours later, he described his sordid fantasy in further detail.
Within five minutes, the defendant followed that message up with a voicemail message of a similar nature.
At the same time, Pope contacted his financial adviser, inviting her to his home for "sexy playtime".
As he had with the police officer, he underscored his intentions with an explicit voicemail message.
"It contained Pope making sexual moans and sounds," a police summary said.
The victim said she had been scared for her safety and remained upset that she had to explain the situation to her children after officers attended her home.
The police officer Pope had targeted wrote in a statement that her confidence had been knocked by the ordeal.
"She was just doing her job and you made all these sexualised comments," the judge said. "She found it to be degrading ... that she was just an object of your lust."
The court heard Pope was now more than halfway through a year-long programme to address his behaviour.
While he was attending regular sessions, therapists said he "appears to struggle to apply principles and strategies he’s been taught with everyday life".
Pope told Probation in an interview that he experienced high sexual urges which led to him viewing considerable amounts of pornography.
Bored and isolated, he would scroll through his phone contacts and act on his impulses.
Judge Turner said he hoped the community work would combat Pope’s boredom.
