A Former Huddersfield psychiatrist who hired a private detective agency to spy on a policeman has been banned for two months by his profession's watchdog.
Nicholas Cooling, 50, paid for a surveillance team to follow Pc Robert Millar as he drove to a post office.
Dr Cooling had been recruited as the West Midlands Police's consultant psychiatrist to stamp out the high number of officers taking early retirement through ill-health.
He became convinced that Mr Millar, now 35, was looking for an 'easy ticket' out of the force and to get a pension through injury.
Dr Cooling decided to have him filmed covertly and gave the agency details of the patient including his address.
At a resumed hearing of the General Medical Council Dr Cooling was suspended from practice for two months for acting inappropriately by giving out the information.
Chairman Ralph Bergman said: "Your misconduct amounts to a breach of one of the fundamental tenets for medical practitioners."
Dr Cooling, of Battersea, London, denied his fitness to practise was impaired.
Last year he was cleared of misconduct following claims he raised concerns about the mental state of now-suspended Huddersfield GP Dr Dev Dutt during his divorce proceedings.
Dr Cooling, then at the Nuffield Hospital at Birkby, had treated Dr Dutt's wife, Cath, for a short period in 1994 when she had post-natal depression.
One letter he allegedly wrote claimed that Dr Dutt could be suffering from a condition called morbid jealousy and that in his opinion, Dr Dutt would benefit from a psychiatric evaluation.
The hearing was told he also wrote to a judge at Huddersfield County Court.
Although Dr Cooling was cleared in that case the GMC panel criticised his letter to the judge as 'ill-thought out' as he had never examined Mr Dutt.
