Former AFL player and coach Dean Laidley is set to apply for bail after leaked photos of him emerged from inside a Melbourne police station.

The inaugural West Coast Eagle is charged with offences including stalking after his arrest outside a St Kilda home on Saturday night.

Two senior constables have been suspended over the leaked pictures of the 53-year-old wearing a dress and wig inside a police station interview room.

Deputy Police Commissioner Shane Patton labelled the leak “appalling”, after the pictures appeared on social media.

The suspended officers were expected to be charged with accessing police information without authorisation.

Laidley was remanded in custody after appearing in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Sunday, and is expected to ask for bail during a second appearance on Monday.

Australian Lawyers for Human Rights condemned the behaviour of the officers who distributed the photos of Laidley in custody.

“The act of a police officer secretly taking a photograph of an accused person while the person is in custody is extremely dangerous,” the group’s president, Kerry Weste, said.

Fallen AFL star Ben Cousins will return to court today to complete his bail application, as he prepares to fight nearly all new charges against him, including aggravated stalking in Perth.

The former West Coast Eagles captain was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly being found with about 2.5 grams of methamphetamine in East Victoria Park.

Police had earlier been searching for a vehicle that was seen driving erratically in nearby Kensington.

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Cousins, 41, was also charged with aggravated stalking and 13 counts of breaching a violence restraining order between April 2 and 15. Those charges relate to his ex-partner Maylea Tinecheff, whom he allegedly tried to contact via phone more than 100 times.