Five officers with the Boulder Police Department were disciplined following the results of an internal audit that uncovered misconduct, the department announced in a news release Tuesday
The five officers, who work in the department’s investigations unit, were identified as Commander Thomas Trujillo, Commander Barry Hartkopp, Sergeant David Spraggs, Sergeant Brannon Winn, and Officer Kwame Williams.
The five were found to be in violation of department policy after the conclusion of the review process that “resulted in a determination of officer misconduct,” the release said. The department said following a review of the unit’s case management system, “department officials became aware of cases assigned to a particular detective that had not been investigated or investigated fully between 2019 and the present.”
“I regret that this happened and consider it a serious situation,” Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said in the release. “We had an employee who apparently became overwhelmed. He has since been reassigned from the Investigations Unit.” Chief Herold requested the review in July of this year when the discrepancies were found. She then “immediately brought it to the attention of the Professional Standards Unit and the Independent Police Monitor, with allegations of several different rule/policy violations.”Additionally, the department has taken the following steps to address the situation, the release read:
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