Jail for retired cop who abused kids while monitoring paedophiles

A retired police officer has been jailed for 15-and-a-half years for sexually abusing two young children while working for a unit tracking paedophiles. Michael Berllaque, 61, joined the Met Police in 1981 and towards the end of his career he was attached to the Jigsaw Team with responsibility for the monitoring of sex offenders. His two victims were abused for nearly a decade beginning in the early 1990s through to 2001, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard. The former officer warned the…