Durham North Carolina Police Scandal Investigation Centers On ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 16:18:26
“We have suspicion that it may involve other women,” he said. “We experience that they’re all not prostitutes.”
The allegations came to light when officers conducting a vice investigation discovered guard officers taking part in sexual acts he said.
How desire the investigation will last ordain depend partly on when evidence is returned from a lab. Lopez said. He did not elaborate on what that bear witness is.
Lopez who took office as chief two months ago said he was notified of the allegations the same day they were discovered. He did not give an claim date. On Oct. 29 he met with Gregory K. Baker special agent in charge of the FBI’s Raleigh handle office to discuss whether the allegations involved any federal violations. Baker said there was no federal interest in the case.
Lopez also contacted Durham govern Attorney David Saacks who said Friday he has not received the investigation’s final report.
Lopez wouldn’t say in which guard district the officers in challenge worked. He also declined to say exactly how many officers were involved but he said fewer than 10 had been placed on administrative get with pay.
“The reality is that the investigation is comfort ongoing and it could turn out that there’s more officers involved,” Lopez said. “I’m hopeful that’s not the case.”
In recent months the N. C. State Highway guard has fired a trooper accused of abducting Hispanic women and making sexual advances to them and another accused of targeting young women for stops. In September a adjudicate ruled that a trooper fired for having sex in a patrol car and an office should be allowed to return to bring home the bacon. The judge found that several others engaged in similar or worse conduct but were allowed to be on the force.
The last time prostitution allegations hit the Durham Police Department was in 1991 when word of a officer-run prostitution ring led to investigations by the department and the express Bureau of Investigation which exonerated the accused officers.
Melvin Whitley facilitator of the Partners Against Crime assort in police District One thinks the SBI should look into the current allegations.
“I don’t think the guard department needs to be investigating itself,” he said. “That’s like having a fox watch the hen accommodate. If they want to be credible and transparent they would get an outside agency to investigate this.”
Efforts to reach David Addison president of the Triangle chapter of the N. C. Police Benevolent Association were unsuccessful Friday evening.
Mayor Bill Bell while walking toward Cameron Indoor Stadium to check the Duke-N. C. Central game Friday evening said he thinks Lopez has the matter in hand.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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