A St John Ambulance triple-zero call-taker has been charged after allegedly relaying details of traffic crashes to people in the towing industry.
A 42-year-old Perth woman, Pippa Jay Clinch, is facing 12 counts of disclosing official secrets.
Two other people, a 35-year-old woman from High Wycombe and a 42-year-old Southern River man have also been charged with the same offence and are due to face court next month.
The charges result from an internal police investigation.
Ms Clinch made a brief appearance in the Perth Magistrates Court today and was not required to plead to 12 charges.
She was released on bail until she appears in court again next month.
Damage to emergency services image
Superintendent Darren Seivwright told ABC Radio Perth the woman allegedly sourced the information from a secure police database and received payment for it.
"All of the information that we hold here at WA Police has the personal information of everybody in Western Australia on it, and it's therefore considered to be an official secret," he said.
"The allegation is that one of our employees used that information to gain a personal benefit."
Superintendent Seivwright said the allegations had hurt the image of the emergency services.
"The reputational damage that allegations like this cause for the broader group of people that are employed by WA Police, who do an outstanding job and properly and appropriately guard the official secrets that they use during their normal employment, it's really disappointing."
An employee at the WA Police Assistance Centre, which handles both emergency and non-life-threatening calls, was charged with corruption in January.
