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Someone I had contact with recently within the Portsmouth Police Department told me that I shouldn’t be bitter. I explained to them that I am not and then we had a discussion about the serious lack of morals and ethics within the management of the Portsmouth Police Department. Both of us having similar view points that doing the right thing is important and a trait lacking within our management. A large portion of the Portsmouth Police Department executive staff has refused to acknowledge mistakes that they have made. Instead of saying, “your right, our mistake how can we fix it” they take the point of view that they must defend the decision to a point of embarrassment of themselves, the Police Department and City of Portsmouth as a whole. I have never dealt with such incompetent management in my 30+ years of employment.
Below is a link to an Internal Affairs Complaint I made in 2006 on several issues. While the issues were not of monumental importance it involved basically what I identified as liability issues that could expose the City of Portsmouth and it’s employee’s to lawsuit or other legal action. This included mistakes made by 911 Dispatchers, suspected misuse of government funds, harassment by supervisory personal and a threat made against me personally via a third party because I made Freedom of Information Act request for 911 Center financial documents which is my right as a citizen of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
City of Portsmouth Policy states that you can be terminated for threatening another employee. You would think that the Chief of Police might be concerned and look into matters. Apparently not, at least not from any evidence I have seen. As far as I can tell the complaint was never investigated. The principle witness involving the threat was never contacted by Internal Affairs to be interviewed. In a meeting I had with Former Interim Chief Corvello last year he told me he could not find a record of the complaint nor any investigation. The incident occurred after Chief Corvello’s first departure.
Because I am not bitter in the least but on a quest for justice and to demonstrate just how lacking several members of the Portsmouth Police Executive Staff is I’m going to share the pivotal moment when I came to realize that not everyone believes in doing the right thing in the Portsmouth Police Department Management. I believe, as do many others at my level in the department that we should do the right thing even if it means standing up and saying that I messed up, made a mistake or to respond to an accusation, “Yep, I did that”. Law Enforcement Personnel must be above reproach and set the example to society to be effective. Police Officers at all levels must be above reproach and be able to self-police themselves. My peers at the Portsmouth Police Department for the most part do that, the same can not be said of a number of our leaders.
In the very near future I am going to be revealing evidence and documentation that supports the claims I made above and will demonstrate the issues described. For the moment take a look at the beginning of my quest for justice and the pivotal point in my career with the Portsmouth Police Department. I realized I was naive, that their are Police Officers and sadly those in management that are not interested in doing the right thing but only protecting themselves and there turf.
Click here to read the Internal Affairs Complaint made 01/17/2006 that started my quest for justice.
Tags: Chief William Corvello, City of Portsmouth Illegal Activity, City of Portsmouth Liability, corruption, Portsmouth, Portsmouth Police Department
