Disgraced Cop Collects Over $400 thou in wages

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I'd heard about this before but didn't realize she has since appealed.


Last I had heard even the Police Union didn't want her back.......






fired Windsor cop is back on the payroll after filing an appeal, further extending a process that has already limped along more than four years with her on paid suspension.


Const. Dorothy Nesbeth was fired Dec.19 after being found guilty in October of deceit and discreditable conduct for failing to declare alcohol at the border. The same day, she contacted a new lawyer.


Linda McCurdy said Wednesday she filed an official appeal on behalf of Nesbeth, who is currently in Jamaica. McCurdy said the appeal is in its early stages and Nesbeth hasn’t officially retained her.


“I haven’t been retained as of yet,” said McCurdy. “I’m waiting for her to get back then we’ll have that conversation.”


Windsor police had no comment about the appeal on Wednesday, but they did confirm Nesbeth is back on paid suspension while she appeals. Chief Al Frederick previously said that provincial rules dictate Nesbeth must go back on paid suspension until the appeal process is finished.


Between the time she was suspended in 2010 and her dismissal in December, Nesbeth was paid about $400,000 in salary for no work.


Officers with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) stopped Nesbeth at the Ambassador Bridge on July 28, 2010. They seized 102 cans of beer, 10 litres of wine and two bottles of rum, all undeclared.


She was charged under the Police Services Act with deceit and two counts of discreditable conduct. Nesbeth’s hearing began Aug. 30, 2011 but was bogged down for years by repeated delays, including the loss of recorded testimony and the defence’s attempt to have media banned from the proceedings.


The hearing officer, retired Supt. Robert Fitches, convicted Nesbeth in October of deceit for making false statements and discreditable conduct for failing to declare goods at the border. He found her not guilty of the second discreditable conduct charge for allegedly threatening customs officers.


Fitches issued a ruling Dec. 19 that Nesbeth be fired. Chief Al Frederick immediately implemented her dismissal.
In his ruling, Fitches wrote that Nesbeth’s “usefulness to the Windsor Police Service has been annulled.”


“I remain unconvinced as to her recognition of the seriousness of her behaviour over many, many months and there are no indications that I can point to that suggest that reform or rehabilitation is likely or even possible,” he wrote.




Fired Windsor cop goes back on payroll while she appeals dismissal | Windsor Star

 

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goes back on payroll?

she has always been on payroll if she has collected over 400 grand...........she's frigging laying on a beach in the sun beCAUSE she has money and time...ya know...the two things everyone wants...she just got hers committing a crime

I hope she does time, that'll wipe those tan lines clean

and this type of behaviour can not be allowed on our forces

BUT

this had better not involve the old boy's club or they will lose and it will cost us a bundle...so we the taxpayer will suck up the pain monetarily

AGAIN

AND

Fitches issued a ruling Dec. 19 that Nesbeth be fired. Chief Al Frederick immediately implemented her dismissal.
In his ruling, Fitches wrote that Nesbeth’s “usefulness to the Windsor Police Service has been annulled.”

I want our money back...or did it all get used up on alcohol and partying?

 

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More than five years after she was caught smuggling booze across the border, disgraced Windsor police Const. Dorothy Nesbeth has been fired from the force.

Between the time Nesbeth was suspended in 2010 and her dismissal, Nesbeth was paid more than $400,000 in salary.

A spokesperson for the Ontario Civilian Police Commission, which heard the appeal of Nesbeth’s dismissal, confirmed Tuesday that it sided with the hearing officer, Robert Fitches, who earlier found her guilty of deceit and discreditable conduct and imposed a penalty of dismissal.

She appealed the firing to the OCPC, which launched a hearing Aug. 12.

“While, like the hearing officer, we sympathize with the effect that the dismissal will have on the appellant (Nesbeth) and her family,
we find that the decision to dismiss her in the circumstances of the case was supported by the evidence and within the range of appropriate penalties,” reads the OCPC three-person ruling dated Nov. 23. “It should be noted, however, that the appellant had plenty of opportunities to demonstrate remorse, accept responsibility, and thus mitigate the most aggravating elements of her conduct. But she consistently chose not to.”

Nesbeth’s lawyer Linda McCurdy said Tuesday she told her client about the decision but has not yet had an opportunity to discuss it with her.

“I’m very disappointed,” said McCurdy, who handled the appeal but not the drawn-out case before that. “I didn’t deal with the entire case. I did my best with what I had on appeal.”

McCurdy thinks Nesbeth’s punishment is worse than some officers have received for more serious transgressions.
Nesbeth can appeal the OCPC ruling to the courts.

Windsor police Chief Al Frederick did not return calls from the Star Tuesday.

Mayor Drew Dilkens would like chiefs of police to have more ability to terminate pay, after an appropriate length of time, for officers battling charges in court.

“I’m happy the matter has been resolved,” said Dilkens, who serves as the chair of the Windsor Police Board. “And we look forward to working on changes to the Police Act to allow the chiefs to have more discretion when it comes to those types of matters.”

Jason DeJong, president of the Windsor Police Association, did not want to address the Nesbeth case directly, since she funded her own appeal.

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