Six disturbing words NSW cop Jonathan Charles Bettles told a helpless woman after he viciously bashed and stomped on her

A woman who was punched, punched and pushed against a wall by a senior officer felt too scared to call triple zero after being told ‘the whole police force would be just like him’.

Jonathan Charles Bettles, 37, physically assaulted the victim a total of 10 times between August 2019 and August 2021 at her south-west Sydney home, the cafe where she worked and in his car.

While a member of the NSW Police Force, he punched the woman in the head and jaw, stamped on her left foot and knocked her against the wall of her bedroom by forcing open a door she tried to keep shut.

The Bonnyrigg man also punched the side of her head, knocking her unconscious.

She ended up lying on the floor as he stood over her in panic and said, “Get up, get up, get up.”

These admissions stem from an agreed statement of facts presented to the court after Bettles pleaded guilty to thirteen offences, including common assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, destroying or damaging property and perverting the course of justice.

The then chief officer used his position in the police force to prevent his victim from filing an official complaint about his crimes, the facts say.

“I know how the system works,” he told her.

The victim knew something was wrong, but felt unable to say anything.

“The perpetrator had always made the victim feel that he was aware of the law, and that the entire police force would be like him and believe him over her,” the agreed facts say.

At one point he asked her to move with him from Sydney because he wanted a job as a regional police officer.

She refused, telling him she was “afraid to go into the woods.”

“Like you’re a hitter,” she texted him.

“Suppose you hit me one day, I’ll die.”

Bettles said via text messages that he regretted his actions and said he was “very embarrassed and ashamed” for attacking her.

The former NSW police officer (pictured) pleaded guilty to 13 offenses including common assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, destroying or damaging property and perverting the course of justice

“It makes me sick,” the 38-year-old once wrote, accompanied by four sad face emojis.

However, violence kept returning.

In separate incidents, he punched the side of the woman’s head, ripping out her earring, poured Coke on her and grabbed her sweater as he tried to pull her out of her car near her workplace.

“Help me, please help me,” she shouted to a nearby bystander on the last occasion.

After Bettles destroyed a $400 Napoleon makeup set by dousing it with water in the bathroom sink, she called triple zero.

Although he picked up her phone and hung up, she received multiple calls until she answered.

When he heard that the victim would then have to make a statement to the police, the senior officer told her to make up a ‘bulls*** story’.

“Give them a fake name, they can’t do anything,” he said.

She went to the police station and told officers she had an argument with “John Smith.”

While a member of the NSW Police Force, Bettles punched the woman in the head and jaw, stamped on her left foot and knocked her against the wall of her bedroom by forcing open a door she tried to keep closed.

He never apologized to her for the violence, instead saying that “we have to stop insulting each other” in an attempt to shift the blame to his victim, court documents say.

The woman took photographs showing the extent of her injuries over the years, many of which will be viewed by a magistrate during a hearing at Burwood Local Court on May 28.

Bettles is no longer employed by the NSW Police Force.