Shamed cop jailed for attempting to groom 13-year-old

A police officer who once worked in child abuse investigations was jailed for over two years today for sending explicit photographs of himself to a person he believed to be a 13-year-old girl. Mark Collins, 56, told the ‘teenager’ she was ‘very attractive’ and asked if she had any sexual urges after contacting her via the message service Kik. Collins, who joined the force in 1991, urged her to delete the sexual photographs and any messages between them so that…