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State agency investigated suspended Dayton police officer
DAYTON - A veteran Dayton Police Officer was asked to turn in his badge and weapon Tuesday, Nov. 3, after two separate criminal investigations found he might have broken the law.
Officer Alan Parker has been suspended after an organized crime task force within state Attorney General Richard Cordray’s office investigated for more than a year the officer’s use of a statewide criminal database, police said.
Cordray’s spokeswoman Holly Hollingsworth is checking to see if she can confirm his office was involved in the investigation.
Parker is also the focus of a DPD internal investigation, but details of that investigation are unknown.
Police Chief Richard Biehl said this afternoon Parker was suspended for misuse of a police computer and for job performance, but declined to elaborate. He said both investigations have been submitted to the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office for consideration of criminal charges.
Parker has not been fired and is not facing any criminal charges at this time, police union president Randy Beane said.
“If the allegations are true then he does not deserve to wear the badge,” Beane said. “We are professionals and are held to a higher standard.”
Parker is a patrol officer in the department’s second-district which covers the southeastern portion of the city. He has been with the department 19 years, Biehl said.
Parker’s personnel file contained three reprimands including: one written reprimand issued on Oct. 14 for “submitting overlapping overtime entries resulting in being erroneously overpaid for the same hours worked.”
He received an oral reprimand on August 27 for investigating a hit-and-run accident at 2921 Linden Ave. and not submitting a report until Sept. 16, according to documents in his file. The other oral reprimand was for not filing correct medical paperwork before returning to full duty.
Parker has also received six written commendations in his career including; for his investigation that led to arrest of drug dealers in 1993, recovering a stolen car in 2002 and involvement in numerous other arrests.
Parker is the second officer to be investigated for misuse of police computers. Officer Phillip Brooks Sr. in April was suspended indefinitely after an internal investigation found he allegedly used a department database to find impounded cars and sell them illegally.
Brooks, who has since left the department, was indicted by a grand jury on charges related to the investigation and his case is still pending.
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