A JILTED police officer carried out a vicious campaign against his ex-girlfriend after she dumped him.

PC James Burnett conducted the hate campaign – including setting up fake Tinder and Facebook accounts – against his former partner after she broke off their short relationship.

Burnett bombarded the woman, from North Berwick, with abusive phone calls and texts and even sent bouquets of flowers to her home in a bid to win her back.

But the woman was forced to call in police after a friend discovered the bogus Tinder profile in her name on the popular adult dating site.

The Tinder account featured a photograph of the woman with the tag line: “I like to be treated dirty by men”, while the spiteful texts labelled her “a slut, a slag and a whore”.

The 23-year-old told Edinburgh Sheriff Court she felt “fear” and that her life was “put at risk” after finding out about the phoney social media pages.

Burnett – whose career is now in tatters after he was forced to resign from his position as a constable with Police Scotland in November 2014 – was found guilty of causing the woman fear and alarm by creating social media profiles in her name between December 31, 2013, and July 7, 2014, following a trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

The court was told that the woman first met Burnett, who has since moved from his Edinburgh flat to his parents’ home in Banchory, when she worked at the Capital’s popular city centre music venue The Jam House.

Burnett, 33, was on official police business regarding an incident that took place at the club the previous week, and the woman agreed to give the constable her mobile number after he expressed an interest in holding a police staff function at the venue.

After a couple of weeks of communication, the couple began a short eight-week relationship that the woman subsequently ended about the end of December 2013.

Following the break-up, she was then bombarded with disgusting texts and phone calls over the next few weeks sent by the heartbroken constable.

She told the court the texts branded her “primarily a slut, a slag and a whore”, while he also began sending her unwanted bouquets of flowers and making repeated phone calls to her.

The shocked woman then discovered the bogus Facebook and Tinder accounts had been set up in her name after an old school friend saw her details on the adult dating site.

The fake Tinder account set up by Burnett contained the tag line: “I like to be treated dirty by men.”

The woman told the court: “My personal details were on a dating site that I did not create myself. There was a little bit of fear as to what that could bring with it.

“I felt it was quite serious that someone was impersonating me. I felt it was serious and could put me at risk.”

She subsequently called in the police and, following an investigation, including work done by the force’s Cyber Crime Unit on Burnett’s phone and laptop, he was arrested and charged with placing the woman in a state of fear and alarm over a six-month period.

Sheriff Alistair Noble told the unemployed ex-police constable he had found all the Crown witnesses “credible and reliable” and found him guilty of the amended charge during a hearing at the Capital court on Friday, January 8.

The sheriff also decided the sending of the flowers, the abusive texts and the phone calls did not place the woman in fear or alarm and deleted them from the charge.

Sheriff Noble added: “It was clear you were angry about the break-up of the relationship.

“It is obvious the complainer was alarmed [by the creation of the fake Tinder and Facebook accounts] so it is appropriate to get a social work report before sentencing.”

Sentence was deferred to next month.