OKC Police Dept fires officer citing ‘complete lack of integrity’

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OKLAHOMA CITY (Free Press) — The Oklahoma Metropolis Police Division fired Devin Frazier as a sworn officer on Might 14 and introduced the firing Wednesday citing a listing of violations of departmental coverage in addition to his “full lack of integrity” and violating the division’s “core values.”

The Might 14 letter to Frazier notifying him of his termination with the division paperwork that he was investigated by the Workplace of Skilled Requirements within the division after which appeared earlier than Deputy Chief Brian Jennings on Might 5.

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Oklahoma Metropolis Chief of Police Wade Gourley. (Brett Dickerson/Okla Metropolis Free Press)

After listening to testimony and documentation of the allegations, the Deputy Chief sustained the allegations and so did Chief of Police Wade Gourley.

“Your actions reveal an entire lack of integrity, represent a willful and wanton disregard for the Oklahoma Metropolis Police Division’s core values, they usually destroy neighborhood belief within the police division,” wrote Gourley within the letter.

Allegations

The letter cited ten allegations centering on Frazier’s involvement in a single case a couple of “home quarrel.” The allegations have been sustained by Jennings and Gourley. They have been:

  • Being “untruthful” with a lieutenant a couple of contact he had made.
  • Photographing a criminal offense scene together with his private cellphone and not using a supervisor’s approval.
  • Not correctly gathering and preserving proof at a criminal offense scene.
  • Failure to finish a Home Violence Threat Evaluation.
  • Inaccurate documentation that he had used his city-issued cellphone to {photograph} proof.
  • Inaccurate documentation that he had taken {a photograph} of proof when it was taken by one other individual.
  • Exchanging “inappropriate textual content messages” with one other individual.
  • Dashing in September in his patrol automotive sustaining “a pace over 90 mph, with a prime pace of 115 mph” on I-44 the place the pace restrict was posted as 65 mph).
  • Offering data to an “unauthorized individual” obtained from his Cell Knowledge Laptop.
  • Failure to take applicable motion on a criminal offense scene.

The termination letter additionally lists metropolis issued tools and uniforms Frazier was being required to return.


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Final Up to date Might 26, 2023, 1:25 PM by Brett Dickerson – Editor

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