SAN FRANCISCO -- A police officer is facing possible disciplinary action for allegedly using surveillance cameras at San Francisco International Airport to ogle women as they walked through the terminal, according to San Francisco Police Commission documents.

Officer William Rossi was supposed to be patrolling airport roads and parking lots during his Feb. 29, 2004, shift, when he used the airport's closed-circuit television system to focus on women's breasts and buttocks, police Chief Heather Fong said in charging documents.

Police share the surveillance system with several agencies. When the Police Department traffic substation is controlling a camera, none of the other agencies is able to use that camera, the charging documents note.

Rossi allegedly spent a total of three hours manipulating six of the cameras.

He ignored coworkers' warnings that he should not be using the cameras, saying "he did not care since he was not assigned to the substation he would not get in trouble," according to the charging documents.

Rossi is charged with bringing discredit on the department and failing to devote his entire attention to his duties. He faces suspension or possible termination.

He is also charged with using slurs in an unrelated incident that occurred on April 25, 2004.

Rossi admitted to writing derogatory sexual slurs on a police lieutenant's helmets but maintains that it was meant to be a joke, charging documents say.

The police commission is set to discuss and act on the charges at its meeting Wednesday.