Typically, when a New Orleans police officer is the subject of a criminal complaint, the NOPD waits until the case is resolved before opening an administrative investigation into the officer. On Wednesday, Louisiana’s 4th Circuit Court of Appeal slammed that practice, saying it violates officers’ rights under state law.
The ruling came as Sgt. Tyrone Robinson successfully appealed a 30-day suspension without pay he received following an accusation that he battered a female student in 2008 while working a detail at Walter L. Cohen High School. NOPD’s Public Integrity Bureau waited almost a year to complete the internal investigation into Robinson’s alleged actions, but it needed to wrap up that probe into the sergeant within four months, if not two, to comply with a state statute known as the “Police Officer’s Bill of Rights,” the appellate court found.
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