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cop given 4-day suspension



Dominic Adams | The Journal Gazette

A 22-year veteran police officer was suspended for four days without pay last month for two unrelated rules violations.

Officer Jeffery L. McCann was first suspended for a day because of investigative negligence. McCann didn’t file a proper report while investigating an accident, Chief Rusty York told the Board of Public Safety during its meeting Monday.

McCann’s also received a three-day suspension because he was outside of his patrol district.

York said he was at IPFW and supervisors realized he was outside his district when it took him longer to get to a call for service. McCann was then backtracked using his car’s GPS unit.

“He should’ve been patrolling, and he wasn’t,” York said. “He was in a place where he wouldn’t be found.”

McCann has been suspended three other times and has received three letters of reprimand, according to his personnel file. He also has received a meritorious service citation in 2002 and a letter of commendation in 2004.

McCann’s violations were in March, York said, and he served his suspensions in April.

Officer Edward T. Black also was suspended a day without pay when he failed to follow department policies in March and posted a video of an investigation on a website.

York said the video was not inappropriate, but Black violated policy by posting it on a website.

Black, on the force since 2001, has been suspended three other times and also received a letter of reprimand, according to his personnel file. He also received a letter of commendation in 2002.

The suspension was served in April, York said.

Detective Timothy A. Russell also served a one-day suspension without pay for investigative negligence.

Russell waited too long to get a surveillance video from a business in a stolen check case and when he returned to the store, the video had already been erased, according to York said.

The violation occurred in March and the suspension was served in April.

Russell has been on the force nearly 30 years and has two other suspensions and five letters of reprimand, according to his personnel file.

Separately, the board learned of the retirement of officer Joseph V. Difilippo and detective Jon M. Van Horn. Both men spent 29 years, six months on the force.

York also told the board of the resignation of officer Paul C. Meitz after four years and five months on the force. York said Meitz’s wife took a job out of state, prompting the resignation.


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