Two Volusia County law enforcement officers are suspended without pay just days before the holidays because of a DUI stop.
Ponce Inlet police officer Chris Selander pulled over Sheriff's deputy Ken Vickery early November.
According to an internal affairs investigation report, the officer let the deputy go with a warning even though he believed the deputy could have failed a sobriety test.
The conversation between the two was caught on an audio recording.
Selander is heard telling Vickery, “I'm trying to work with you sergeant! I've never arrested a cop in my life and I've never given a cop a ticket in my life."
Vickery was suspended for one week for failing to cooperate. Selander was suspended for two weeks for showing favoritism toward a fellow officer, which is something homeowners said is unfair.
"It was wrong to do it,” said John Paun from Ponce Inlet. “Anybody else if I did it, I would've gotten a ticket, I would've went to jail or whatever."
A spokesman for Ponce Inlet police said the conversation between the officer and the deputy was done by Selander using his personal tape recorder and turned over to police as evidence.
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2 comments:
This Chris Selander was a bad cop here in Ponce Inlet. The chief here at that time fired him, he would make stuff up about people then arrest them. A black eye to law enforcement, good riddance !
That is not true and you should be mindful of a lawsuit. You don't know that officer and he was not fired not a bad cop.
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