Exclusive | NYC cops spied on female officers through locker-room peephole, lawsuit claims

NYPD bosses allegedly ogled female officers as they undressed through a secret hole in a locker room wall at a Bronx stationhouse, according to a bombshell lawsuit.The peephole — reminiscent of the notorious scene in the 1981 flick “Porky’s,” where high schoolers spy on female classmates as they shower — was hidden behind a computer monitor, a victim claimed in court papers.Sgt.Joleen Lozano found the apparent spyhole when she worked in a shared supervisors’ office at the Evidence Collection Unit on Washington Avenue in the South Bronx, she claimed in the legal filing.

While Lozano was “getting ready to log into the computer and charge her phone, she notices that there is a hole drilled into the wall which allows anyone in the supervisors’ office to look into the locker room through the peephole,” according to the Bronx Supreme Court lawsuit filed by lawywer John Scola in September.Photos show the hole was a drilled through a wall with a cord hanging out of it, but big enough to see inside the room where Lozano, 45, and other supervisors changed their clothes.The wire didn’t go anywhere, Scola said.“The male supervisors of the unit would watch .

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the other supervisors of the command change in the locker room,” Lozano claimed in the legal filing.The sergeant — with 20 years on the job — blocked the peephole with a metal plate and reported it to Internal Affairs, she said.She also filed internal sexual harassment complaints on behalf of herself and three other women against Sgt.Hubert Vandewerp, who regularly  called her “Sergeant Ass” and “Sergeant Lips,” in front of other officers, including bosses, according to the lawsuit.Her female colleagues allegedly told Lozano that Vandewerp, 42, frequently “made sexually explicit comments to them, cursed at them and then called them fat,” she said in the legal papers.Soon after filing the complaints, Lozano found a rat doll in one of her drawers, and her overtime dried up, a...