Police Discipline Sergeant For Ethics Violations & firearms evidence

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http://articles.courant.com/2010-08...1_president-peter-kot-detective-evidence-unit


BRISTOL — — A veteran police officer faces a three-week suspension after an internal investigation found extensive ethical violations in the department's evidence-handling operation, including a personal collection of handguns.

Sgt. Rodney Gotowala spent years accumulating the guns in the police evidence vault, including several that he obtained "by less than honest and professional" means, according to the investigative report.

They were stored alongside official evidence, and a few had been there so long Gotowala apparently could no longer tell which were city property and which were his, the investigator said.


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Three-week suspension for violating the public's trust, destroying the fabric of the legal and justice system, ignoring the constitution, and more?
 
Must be nice having such a secure job that you can get away with stuff like that.

Civil Circus protects bad officers (employees) and that is probably as much punishment as CS would agree to. I've seen it in another department where it took forever and a repeat offender was given little but a slap on the wrist every time.
 
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