A CONTROLLING police officer who objected to his girlfriend’s work uniform and bombarded her with 190 calls in a day after she dumped him has been spared jail.

James Addison, 21, who made abusive remarks towards Emma Coulter, 20, at the busy Glasgow City Centre shop where she worked, wanted her to change her clothes.

He turned up at her house uninvited and, on one occasion, looked around inside at 3am after refusing to believe she wasn’t home.

When Miss Coulter called the relationship off, he relentlessly bombarded her with phone calls and messages, and even changed the settings on his phone to bypass a block against his phone.

Crazed Addison, from Cowie, Stirlingshire, also threatened to post pictures of her online.

The court also heard how he sent around 1,000 emails between July and September begging her to take him back, or being angry and threatening.

Miss Coulter’s concerned mother contacted the police.

He pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to stalking Miss Coulter by engaging in a course of conduct which caused her fear or alarm between January and September 2016.

Today, Addison - a former officer in Lothian and Borders - was given community payback, compensation and non-harassment orders.

Sheriff Alan MacKenzie told him he will be supervised for 12 months and has to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work within six.

Addison must pay his victim £750 and not approach or contact her for two years.

He is no longer a serving police officer.