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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