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Court Dismisses Wrongful Termination Suit Of Ex-Southold 'Top DWI Cop' - North Fork, NY - An ex-Southold "Top DWI Cop" who has long maintained that he was wrongfully terminated, saw his long-running civil suit dismissed this week.
A distant photo of the retirement party, published with permission from a local resident who drove past the event. At least six Southold Town Police Department employees are being questioned in an ongoing probe of the department’s response to community complaints about a sergeant’s retirement party last May, according to billing records filed with the town. As of Feb. 23, a police sergeant, one police officer and two dispatchers had been deposed by outside counsel hired by the Town Board to conduct the investigation. Two more officers were scheduled to be deposed, a...
TIM GANNON PHOTO Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and local police officials announce a grant to improve police communications in 2017. The Suffolk County Legislature approved $1.75 million in funding last Tuesday to upgrade police communication equipment on the East End, including a communication tower planned for Jamesport, an area police say has bad reception. The project, initiated by Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini, is called the East End Law Enforcement Communication Project. “Improving the communications systems utilized by the collabor...
Police chief responds to task force report, questions cost of body cams Funding for body cameras is a cost Southold Chief Martin Flatley raised as a concern. (Credit: Ryan Johnson/Flickr) Among the recommendations outlined in Southold’s police reform report are the need to diversify the police force, establish an internal affairs bureau to better investigate complaints and begin equipping officers with body-worn cameras. “There are some items that are definitely attainable, some we are currently in the process of implementing, but just as many that I don’t fee...
Southold Town hires four new officers, promotes pair to sergeant Four new officers are joining the Southold Town police force. At a meeting Tuesday, the Town Board appointed Patrick Anderson, Fiona Faherty, Ryan Flatley -— whose father is Police Chief Martin Flatley -— and Kyle Krause as new probationary officers at a starting salary of $51,607. They will each be placed on an immediate, unpaid leave of absence until the next scheduled police officer training begins at the Suffolk County Police Academy and, upon graduation, will become active probationary officers if they ...