If you’re a police chief, if you decide to fire a lot of your cops for certain reasons?

Posted by admin on June 19th, 2010 and filed under fire chief | 2 Comments »

such as they wrongfully arrest someone, don’t do their job, or some other police misbehavior and because you really don’t tolerate their misbehavior, can you lose your job?

In very few departments would a police chief be allowed to just fire officers. Most are under a civil service system and there is a process that has to be gone through.

But depending on the issues sure the chief could be fired.

2 Responses

  1. Freethinker Says:

    Yep. It’s very political, and all the cop unions would be after your blood. So legally, no. But practically, you betcha.
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  2. WRG Says:

    In very few departments would a police chief be allowed to just fire officers. Most are under a civil service system and there is a process that has to be gone through.

    But depending on the issues sure the chief could be fired.
    References :

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