DENVER (KDVR) A Denver Police Department officer was fired after he was accused of sending personal texts to a crime victim and downloading pictures of her in swimwear to his department-issued phone.

According to disciplinary records obtained by local affiliate KDVR, former officer Kendall Albert responded to a domestic violence call on Sept. 13, 2024. The investigation led to a separate officer providing the victim a courtesy ride home.

The victim told the department in a follow-up interview that while she was riding home with the other Denver police officer, she received a text from Albert. She also received a text from Albert while he was still on duty, asking her out to coffee.

The victim went on to tell the agency that Albert was sharing too much personal information and that it was “a little uncomfortable for her.” The victim also provided screenshots of her text exchanges with Albert and later told department investigators that she could tell Albert was trying to flirt with her.

On Sept. 24, 2024, Albert was served an officer notice of complaint, a no-contact order and a do-not-discuss order. That same day, Albert’s department-issued cellphone was confiscated for examination.

Department-issued phone had women’s bikini photos

A search of Albert’s phone showed that Albert had installed Facebook and Instagram on the phone and used the applications to look at women’s social media profiles, resulting in a large number of images. Albert’s phone allegedly contained hundreds of images that showed “unknown females, including several images of females in bikinis, lingerie, or which could be described as suggestive or sexual in nature.”

Additionally, the department found that Albert had used the phone to access the victim’s Facebook and Instagram profiles 70 times starting Sept. 16. Some of the images Albert accessed included the victim in a bikini, which he viewed multiple times.

The department’s disciplinary records state that Albert sent a photo of the victim’s driver’s license to his personal cell phone the day after he responded to the domestic violence call. At the time, Albert was off-duty, and the disciplinary records say there is no legitimate law enforcement reason for him to transfer the information to his personal cell phone.

Albert’s phone also allegedly had an image related to a pornographic website, and a search for “how to hide applications on an I-phone.”

Another officer who was on scene of the domestic violence call on Sept. 13, and who drove the victim after the investigation, told the Denver Police Department’s Internal Affairs team that the victim had been flirting with Albert and specifically asked him to drive her.

Former officer claims text messages weren’t unsolicited

On Nov. 20, 2024, Albert was interviewed by the department’s internal affairs unit. He told the interviewer that he had not sent unsolicited text messages to the victim.

When Albert was asked why he had been texting the victim during the courtesy ride, he said he had “just made some small talk with her, and she gave me her number and told me to text her.” Albert specifically denied getting the victim’s phone number from the call log.

Albert denied that he sent the messages as an attempt to start a romantic relationship, saying that he did not text or call the victim after Sept. 14, 2024. He also said that he sent the messages at the victim’s “request.”

The former officer said that the victim told him her number verbally, and he memorized it. He acknowledged that his conversation with her was flirty, and then said he “just wasn’t thinking” while texting her. Albert denied giving her his personal cell number, according to the disciplinary records, and said he deleted his text thread with her the next morning, even without reading the two final messages the victim sent.

Albert was asked to explain why he looked up the victim’s social media profiles in the days after the investigation, and he told internal affairs that, “Honestly, I don’t have a good reason on why.”

Then, Albert was asked about the photos of the victim’s driver’s license, which Albert allegedly viewed two days after the domestic violence investigation. He said that he accessed her ID to complete the report for the incident, and someone had asked for her information.

The disciplinary report said Albert was “evasive and disingenuous” during questioning, and his conduct was “egregious and against the code of ethics.” Albert was fired in September 2025.