A probationary female police officer found herself unable to call for help after being cornered by a drunk admirer.
The constable — just two weeks into the job — was plagued with inappropriate and sexual remarks by burly Lukasz Brakiewicz.
However, when she tried to call for back-up she found she could not get through to the police control room.
Brakiewicz asked the officer to strip-off as she stood point on a flat in the city centre and made suggestive remarks about her bust.
It is understood investigations were ongoing into the sudden death of a young man within the property.
The 32-year-old Polish national suggested that she should leave the police — telling her he hated the police — and retrain as a nurse, before miming that they wore short skirts.
And he urged her to shed her body armour and slip into something more revealing, such as a bikini, so he could better admire her figure.
He gestured at her chest and was told she should take his words as “a compliment” when she told him they were inappropriate.
Brakiewicz suggestions and unwanted advances came thick and fast over a period of around 40 minutes.
During that time he repeatedly moved in close to the officer and refused to leave her to her job, despite being urged to return to his own home, on an upper floor.
As the officer became increasingly concerned for her safety and convinced that Brakiewicz’s behaviour was escalating, she attempted to call colleagues for assistance.
Perth Sheriff Court heard, however, that Police Scotland communications were so busy she could not get through to the control room.
The officer eventually made contact with a sergeant who “could tell right away that she sounded scared” and he requested that further units attend.
Two constables arrived around five minutes later and are said to have found their colleague “shaken, distressed and frightened.”
Brakiewicz by this point was back in his flat, listening to loud music. The two constables found him to be heavily under the influence of alcohol.
After speaking to the officers he spoke to his victim, telling her “I apologise for my comments”.
He later added: “Maybe I said too much”.
Brazkiewicz, of Fechney Park in Perth, admitted acting in a threatening and abusive manner in the communal stairwell of flats in Fechney Park on April 15 this year, making inappropriate sexual comments towards a police constable and repeatedly asking her personal questions and refusing to stop when asked to do so.
Solicitor John McLaughlin said his client’s judgement had been clouded by alcohol and that the comments were intended in a ‘jokey’ manner and he did not realise the distress he was causing to the officer.
Sheriff William Wood told him: “Police officers have to be reasonably robust in terms of their personalities but there clearly came a point when your behaviour went beyond what might be called banter and far beyond what was reasonable and became quite offensive.
“Whether you intended to cause distress or not, you paid little attention to the impact your comments had upon the constable.”
He fined Brazkiewicz £540.
Unemployed after himself being the victim of an assault for which a man will face attempted murder charges later this year, he will pay the sum at £5 per week.