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Half Moon Bay's next police chief must do a better job of informing residents about critical matters of public interest.
That has been clear for a while now, but it came into stark relief last week when word leaked that one of the city's police officers had been put on administrative leave with pay during an investigation into whether he withheld information in the shocking case of a martial arts instructor who acted inappropriately with his teenage students. Word of the allegations came from agencies outside of the city's police station and not from the men entrusted with our safet... Read more
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Hartford Courant - United Stat
01 May 2008
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Madison Suspends Police Chief,
Police Chief Paul D. Jakubson said in February that he intended to see his scandal-plagued department through its deeply seated troubles.
But the police commission Tuesday suspended the 34-year police veteran and announced an investigation of his conduct.
The commission's chairman said Jakubson, 58, disobeyed an order from the board to let the town attorney supervise the numerous internal-affairs investigations going on in the department and recently had launched a couple of investigations on his own.
Moreover, commission Chairman Emile Geisenheimer said, it would be almost impossible to continue to conduct a credible investigation of the 23-member department "with the chief sitting in the chair."
There was a sense at police headquarters Tuesday afternoon that the problems — four department members fired for serious misconduct, two of them arrested, a fifth facing career-ending charges, a sixth facing possible discipline — had overtaken Jakubson, the chief for the past decade.
The commission immediately appointed retired Hamden Police Chief Robert F. Nolan as interim chief. Geisenheimer said Jakubson's management decisions will be the subject of a separate internal investigation.
The commission and Paul Clendenen, the town attorney, may bring in a police executive from an outside agency to do that inquiry.
Geisenheimer said Nolan's appointment could last weeks or months, depending on the pace of the probe of the chief and the completion of other internal investigations. Nolan starts this morning at 7:30.
Jakubson left the building quickly after he was told he was being placed on paid administrative leave and was not available for comment Tuesday evening.
In an interview with The Courant in February, Jakubson said, "I'm proud of my time here. ... I will remain here as long as it takes to get through these current issues and to get beyond them."
With the terminations and retirements, he said, "this department will have a fresh new look, and we're going to get into extensive retraining and a reaffirmation of management philosophies. That's where my focus is — getting this straight and moving forward."
But on Tuesday, when it was suggested that the commission's action was a productive move, Geisenheimer said, "It's a step forward."
Jakubson started his tenure as chief with controversy — the job was not posted, and the police board at the time did not interview anyone else — and for the past couple of years, the department has been consumed by it.
The four fired officers all worked the overnight shift and were charged with departmental and criminal offenses, among them: consorting with prostitutes while on duty; electronically stalking a woman with a police computer; workers' compensation fraud; stealing gasoline, lobsters and marine equipment; concealing knowledge of police misconduct; and failure to supervise.
Earlier Tuesday, before removing the chief, the commission heard evidence against Officer Daniel Hedges, the fifth department member to face potentially career-ending charges since last year.
Hedges is accused of angrily throwing his badge and loaded, holstered service weapon onto the pavement outside police headquarters after a dispute with management in 2006.
The gun, with a chambered round, skidded and spun about 20 feet along the asphalt, toward a supervisor, according to police department documents.
Hedges is also accused of telling a dispatcher that any supervisor who came to his house to order him to work an overtime shift "better watch out for the red dot on their forehead" — an alleged reference to the laser sight on a sniper rifle.
In 2007, ordered by a sergeant to remain on patrol during the dedication of a plaque for officers who had died, Hedges allegedly said, "I have some names I'd like to add to the list."
The Hedges hearing will resume in about a month.
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