Soon after, Santiago was brought up on departmental charges of conduct unbecoming an officer, improperly speaking to the media, and publicly criticizing the department in a defamatory way.
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The minority officers were all charged departmentally and punished by suspensions and the loss of vacation days . Brosnan, a former bodyguard for Giuliani, never faced departmental charges.
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After Giuliani left the podium, Safir promised to begin a department review of the evidence in the case against the officers to see if departmental charges should be brought.
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Officials said that when they moved Meyer off patrol they could not take away his service weapon without placing him on modified duty, which involves formal departmental charges and a hearing.
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Schundler on Monday declined to say what departmental charges will be used to seek the officer's dismissal during an administrative hearing to be conducted by the police director, Michael F . Moriarty.
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Departmental charges or less serious administrative charges, like failure to supervise, have been filed against nearly all of them, the culmination of an investigation that lasted more than a year, O'Looney said.
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Nicholas Scoppetta, commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services, said that if the departmental charges against the two employees are proved true in administrative hearings, the charges may lead to their dismissals.
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An option, the official said, would be to try to persuade Meyer to resign or to file a series of lesser departmental charges, which would be less likely to result in Meyer's dismissal upon conviction.
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The discipline of black and Hispanic officers brought up on departmental charges has been a simmering issue in New York for years, spurred in part by the Latino Officers Association's complaints of a double standard.
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A jury acquitted the officers of criminal charges last year, and they were cleared of departmental charges last week, although they will remain on desk duty and not be allowed to carry weapons for an undetermined period.
