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Mahoning deputies fired on con
Two Mahoning County deputy sheriffs have been fired because of their involvement in a May episode in which Boardman police were called to a bar because of gunshots.
Sheriff Randall A. Wellington announced the firing Tuesday of Dan Miller, 33, of Poland, and Sgt. Thomas Assion, 30, of Youngstown. Miller was with the department for 12 years , and Assion served for seven years.
A third deputy, Vincent Dravecky, 23, of Canfield, resigned last month. They had been placed on paid administrative leave after the episode, pending an internal investigation. All were corrections deputie... Read more
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Sunday Sun - Newcastle upon Ty
27 April 2008
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Drink-drive police keep their
COPS caught drink-driving are avoiding the sack and are instead being allowed to remain in service or retire at taxpayers’ expense.
Guidelines saying officers convicted of drink-related driving offences should be sacked or forced to resign are not being followed by some North forces.
The Sunday Sun can reveal that, since the Home Office guidelines were issued six years ago, 21 officers from the North’s police forces have been convicted of drink-driving . . . more than half of whom were allowed to remain in service or retire.
Information gathered from Freedom of Information requests showed that nine officers from Northumbria Police were convicted of a drink-driving charge.
One stayed in the job after a disciplinary hearing while the other eight retired.
Three officers from Cleveland police were convicted of a drink-driving charge, with one officer remaining in service, while Durham Police convicted five officers for drink-driving and allowed one officer to retire.
The guidelines, issued by the Home Office and the Association of Chief Police Officers at the end of 2001, state: “An officer convicted by a court of a drink driving office can expect to face a formal misconduct hearing.
“The usual sanction to be applied . . . is either dismissal or a requirement to resign to reflect the serious view which is taken both inside the service and by society generally.”
Roger Vincent, spokesman the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: “It’s always disappointing when you see somebody who is a police officer who is brought before the court for drink- driving.
“People expect them to set a good example in the way they behave as drivers.”
Victim slams cops' policy
YOUNG mum Michelle Garrity, who suffered horrific injuries after being ploughed into by a drink driver, has slammed cops for not immediately sacking officers convicted of the offence.
Michelle, 24, was left fighting for her life after the accident over two years ago and is still in pain. She said: "It’s absolutely disgraceful that police officers are drink-driving and are not being automatically sacked. Why is there a law — which they are supposed to be upholding — if they’re not going to adhere to it?"
The crash killed her friend Stuart Elsender, 24, and left his younger brother David in a critical condition.
Michelle, of Cramlington, Northumberland, suffered two fractures to her skull, three neck fractures, a punctured lung and several broken bones.
She added: "These officers should be named and shamed."
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