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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
8. Update: Arresting officer has been FIRED!
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 11:12 PM
Feb 2020
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/02/27/orlando-police-sergeant-disciplined-for-forgetting-procedure-during-6-year-old-girls-arrest/
Orlando police officials said last year that department policy requires that an officer obtain approval from a watch commander before arresting anyone under the age of 12, which didn’t happen in Kaia’s case.

Officer Dennis Turner was fired as a result of the controversial arrest.

An internal affairs investigation released Thursday shows that the sergeant on duty that day should have contacted a watch commander but never did, even as the transporting officer repeatedly expressed concern.

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As a result of failing to follow department procedure, the sergeant was ordered to serve an eight-hour suspension, which he did by forfeiting personal time he had accrued.
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