A CENTRAL Victorian police officer has been charged with rape and numerous counts of assault, alleged to have occurred in the past 11 years.
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The officer appeared in the Bendigo Magistrates' Court on Monday.
It follows an investigation by Victoria Police's Taskforce Salus, which deals with allegations of sexual predatory behaviour and serious sexual harassment and discrimination involving police.
Documents released by the court show the rape charge dates back to a period between June 2011 and July 2012.
One of the assault charges relates to an incident alleged to have occurred in May 2010.
The officer is charged with intentionally and recklessly causing injury by banging a person's head into the ground that same month.
A further assault is alleged to have occurred in January 2011.
The officer is charged with intentionally and recklessly causing injury by kicking a laptop into a woman's stomach that same day.
Taskforce Salus investigators allege the officer intentionally damaged a mobile phone later that year.
The officer is charged with assault in August 2012, and a further alleged assault in October 2015.
The officer is alleged to have recklessly caused injury on the October 2015 date by sweeping a woman's legs from under her and punching her to the face, shoulders and back.
Investigators allege the officer intentionally damaged a mobile phone sometime in the week after the October 2015 assault.
The officer successfully argued for their name not to be made public - a request the court upheld out of concern for the officer's family, and for people the officer had worked with.
The officer was charged on summons earlier this month. He has been suspended with pay.
The case is listed to come back to court in June.
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