A jealous policewoman threatened to petrol bomb the house of a man she met on Tinder and kidnap his children when he started seeing someone new.

Detective Constable Kirsty Anderson, 39, plead guilty to harassment at Bradford Crown Court and is facing jail.

Anderson, who had worked in the force's domestic violence unit, met the man on a dating app and the two went out for eight weeks until he left her when she became too intense.

The 39-year-old plead guilty to harassment at Bradford Crown Court, and resigned from the force only 24 hours before she entered her plea

She had worked for the police for over 13 years, and resigned on Thursday just 24 hours before pleading guilty.

When her 37-year-old ex began dating someone else, Anderson, from Otley, West Yorkshire, began her threats and harassed him for six months.

The detective told the man that she would make the false claim he had HIV. She also inundated him with phone calls and texts.

Eventually, he reported Anderson to the police force that she worked for, saying that his new partner's hair had begun falling out and she was having panic attacks.

The disgraced former detective also admitted gaining access to police computers for information she was not cleared to see.

Defending, Mike Rawlinson, said the detective had a 'raft of mental health problems,' reports The Sun.

In an online profile, the former police officer said she was 'dedicated and hardworking' and described herself as a 'successful investigator in serious complex crime and acquisitive crime.'

Her sentencing is set for the January 26. She was granted bail, and told she could not contact the victim or his new partner.

Judge Abdul Iqbal said: 'All options remain open, including a custodial sentence.'