A SOUTH-WEST police officer has been charged with hoon driving and two others fined after an internal investigation into a speeding police escort for Cold Chisel frontman Jimmy Barnes on Saturday. 
The senior constable, who had been leading the escort on a motorcycle, has been charged with reckless driving after he was allegedly clocked by a speed camera travelling at 129km/h - 49km/h above the speed limit - while escorting Barnes along the Bussell Hwy to his concert in Margaret River.

Two marked police cars travelling behind Barnes' vehicle were allegedly travelling at 110kmh and 116kmh. 
The drivers, a sergeant and a first class constable, have been issued with infringements. All three officers will also face disciplinary action. Under anti-hoon laws, police can immediately impound vehicles of drivers found to be speeding by 45km/h or more.
If the driver does not own the car, a substitute vehicle can be surrendered and seized for 28 days. 

The senior constable involved in this case does not own a vehicle.

Yesterday, Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan warned that the officers would be charged or fined if found to have broken the law.
But he said it was unlikely they would lose their jobs.

"Historically, police officers who have committed traffic offences don't usually lose their jobs, not usually on the first instance anyway,'' he said.

"We understand there was a threat that the concert could have been cancelled because the band were extremely late.

"There were 12,000 people at that concert. We were concerned that those 12,000 people would move into the Margaret River area. 

"We were also concerned that the buses that were ferrying some of those people were also ferrying leavers and so we would have had a particularly difficult police operation on our hands if the concert was cancelled.''

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