article_snippet.sent: Acting Police Commissioner Steve Brown said the policeman allegedly looked up the information on a police computer.
article_snippet.sent: Acting Police Commissioner Steve Brown is also concerned about the 112 police officers who had accessed Cousins’ confidential files 300 times in two days, some of whom were working in regional WA.
article_snippet.sent: Officers also reportedly accessed files containing information about Daniel Kerr, a fellow former West Coast Eagles player, according to The West Australian.
article_snippet.sent: Police in Western Australia have come under fire after reports emerged that hundreds of officers unlawfully accessed information relating to the arrests of fallen AFL star Ben Cousins (pictured on April 9) '
article_snippet.sent: I can confirm that WA Police are currently investigating accesses, by a large number of police employees, to the records of high profile persons within our internal computer systems,' Acting Police Commissioner Steve Brown said in a statement. '
article_snippet.sent: Allegations will be investigated under Section 440A of the Criminal Code, which states police officers face up to 12 months in prison or a $12,000 fine for unauthorised computer usage. '
highlights_snippet.sent: The policeman allegedly looked up the information on a police computer .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: 'Hundreds' of officers are said to have unlawfully accessed the documents .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Police also reportedly looked at the files of former AFL player Daniel Keer .
  