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MIDDLETOWN -- A commission studying state police internal affairs problems adopted sweeping recommendations Thursday to change the rules that govern the conduct of troopers and to revamp the structure of the internal affairs division.
The recommendations adopted by the Commission on Internal Affairs were made by Linda Yelmini, deputy commissioner of internal affairs for the state police, who was appointed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
Yelmini also announced to the commission during its regular meeting at the Department of Public Safety in Middletown that she will leave her post b... Read more
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New York Times - United States
16 August 2006
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3 Vice Officers Facing Charges
A New York City police officer and two supervisors, including one charged with maintaining integrity in their vice unit, are expected to surrender to prosecutors today on felony charges that they broke into a massage parlor in Brooklyn, a law enforcement official said yesterday.
The three officers, a lieutenant, a sergeant and a police officer who worked together in the Brooklyn South vice unit, will face third-degree burglary charges in the break-in, which occurred in April in Sunset Park, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the charges have not been made public.
Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, declined to provide details on the case, saying only that the matter is under investigation by the Police Department’s internal affairs bureau.
Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, declined to comment on the case. It was investigated by the police internal affairs investigators and prosecutors from Mr. Hynes’s office.
The charges stem from a raid on the massage parlor conducted by the vice unit, the official said. Seven women were arrested, and at least one of them told the arresting officers that a surveillance system there would show that they were not engaging in sexual acts.
The next day, the official said, the three broke into the massage parlor to retrieve the surveillance system. All three, identified by officials as Lt. Stephen Wong, Sgt. Kwun So and police officer Yuseff Hamm, are expected to face the burglary charges.
Lieutenant Wong is also expected to be charged with perjury for falsely swearing out complaints against the women in the massage parlor, one official said. As the unit’s integrity control officer, he is responsible for developing an integrity program and keeping the commanding officer advised of “conditions and possible corrupting hazards,” according to the department’s patrol guide.
Additionally, the three will most likely face administrative charges for signing out computers seized in the raid from the department’s property office and misusing them, several people who have been briefed on the case said.
The officers are accused of using some of the equipment in the course of their police duties, including making up work schedules for the vice unit, one official said.
The range of misconduct by two supervisors in an elite unit raises questions about the supervision of investigations in a delicate arena of vice enforcement. The investigation is continuing, and it was unclear last night whether additional criminal or administrative charges would be brought against others in the unit.
The officers were expected to be arraigned today in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
A lawyer for Lieutenant Wong, Philip Karasyk, said, “We intend to vigorously defend him and are confident that when all of the facts are in, he will vindicated.”
Andrew Quinn, a lawyer for Sergeant So, said last night that his client was a respected supervisor in the department and that he would not discuss the charges until he could review them today.
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