OFFENSE

EMPLOYER’S PENALTY

RESULT ON APPEAL

DESCRIPTION

CASE NAME

Dishonesty

5-Day Suspension

5-Day Suspension

Police officer gave dishonest testimony in grievance arbitration hearing. Board rejected argument that since the City did not prosecute officer for perjury, it was prohibited from disciplining her.

City of Meriden, Decision 3908 (Conn. SBLR 2003).

Domestic Disturbance

Termination

Termination

Officer threatened to assault his wife and burn down their house, caused significant damage to property in the home, and falsely claimed that his wife had kidnapped their daughters. Defense rejected that officer’s emotional condition was product of his earlier responding to an on-duty call involving the murder of an infant.

Clough v. Civil Service Commission, 797 N.E.2d 1223 (Mass.App. 2003).

Substance Abuse

Termination

Termination

Employer met burden of proof through circumstantial evidence that police officer had consumed Ecstasy. Prescription bottle in which four pills of Ecstasy were found was retrieved from the officer’s car after he was found unconscious at an intersection, and Department appropriately followed chain of custody procedures with respect to prescription bottle. The Court rejected the officer’s claim that an unknown woman drugged him while he was in a bar and placed the Ecstasy pills in the prescription bottle.

Kirsch v. New Orleans Police Department, 12003 WL 22717905 (La.App. 2003).