Thursday, December 6, 2012
Comissioners upheld the chief's four-day suspension for officer Sarah Mork over an unrestrained prisoner in a squad crash. The prisoner was suffering heroin withdrawal and extremely uncooperative with officers.
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- Lisa Sink
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
The Brookfield Police and Fire Commission ruled 4-1 Thursday to uphold an officer's four-day suspension for failing to properly restrain a prisoner in the back of a squad. Commissioners said officer Sarah Mork will serve two days immediately and the other two days will be held in abeyance for a year and not served if there are no other problems. This is the same discipline imposed by a second officer involved in the case, officer Rick King, who did not appeal it to the commission. The two-day hearing focused on the decisions of King and Mork to first not seatbelt — and later not re-seatbelt — a prisoner who was a heroin addict going through withdrawal, at times thrashing and erratic. The prisoner — John Sporer, 30, of Menomonee Falls — had…
Comissioners upheld the chief's four-day suspension for Officer Sarah Mork over an unrestrained prisoner in a squad crash.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Lisa Sink
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Update (Dec. 6): The Brookfield Police and Fire Commission ruled 4-1 to uphold a 4-day suspension of an officer for failing to properly restrain a prisoner in the back of a squad. Commissioners said Officer Sarah Mork should serve two days immediately and the other two days would be held in abeyance for a year and not served if there are no other problems. This is the same discipline imposed by a second officer in the case, Officer Rick King, who did not appeal it to the commission. The suspect was a heroin addict going through withdrawal, thrashing and erratic and who had said he didn't want to go to jail. He had caused problems at Elmbrook Memorial Hospital, but was not overtly combative or threatening to the officers, according to …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
The city's Police and Fire Commission will hear evidence on behalf of the Police Department and Officer Sarah Mork as Mork appeals a four-day suspension for failing to properly seatbelt a prisoner she was taking to jail.
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- Lisa Sink
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
The city's Police and Fire Commission Thursday set a Dec. 4 date to hear a Brookfield police officer's appeal of her four-day suspension for failing to properly seatbelt a prisoner in her squad. Attorneys for Police Chief Dan Tushaus and Officer Sarah Mork agreed to waive a preliminary hearing and reading of charges Thursday, allowing the commission to rule there was a sufficient basis to proceed to an evidentiary hearing Dec. 4. A commission decision likely would be issued within a business week after the hearing. The chief imposed four-day suspensions on Mork and her fellow officer, Rick King in connection with a March 24 prisoner transport. According to the chief's Statement of Charges: The two officers failed to seatbelt a male …
VoiceOfReason
8:37 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person and her 'attitude'. Congratulations to the Chief and to the commission for upholding the rules and lines of authority. more ›