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 lieutenant said that Celester and his associates retaliated by filing departmental charges and by transferring him to the department's notoriously unsanitary cellblocks, normally considered a punishment assignment.
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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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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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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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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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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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Brosnan was allowed to retire before facing any departmental charges, and was granted a disability pension of 75 percent of his salary, tax-free, based on his claim that the sound of the gunfire had damaged his hearing.
