Case study Imagine that you are the SP in a large urban high growth county where you have served as ...........

 Imagine that you are the SP in a large, urban, high-growth county where you have served as a popular police man for twenty years. To your dismay, you are informed that one of your DSP who has served the state for many years is charged with 129 counts of falsification of official documents, 144 counts of failure to follow standard operating procedures and conduct unbecoming a member of the SP’s office charges made by you'' internal affairs investigators. The deputy SP, as it turns out, coordinates all the work at the port authority and is in a position to log off-duty assignments for himself at the port that far exceed regular work week hours. The investigators charge that the sergeant knowingly cooked the books and over-rode computer programs to prevent others from knowing what he did.

Discussion questions

1. What would you do with the DSP?

a. Put a letter of reprimand in his personnel file/ARC

b. Ban him from working any off-duty assignments?

c. Suspend him, reduce him in rank, fire him?

By: Mona Kaushal