Advisory Concerning the Civilian Office of Police Accountability’s Practice of Administratively Terminating Disciplinary Investigations
Summary
The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Public Safety section has identified issues with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability’s (COPA) use of administrative termination to conclude disciplinary investigations short of an investigative finding.
Executive Summary
The Public Safety section of the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducts, on an ongoing basis, reviews of individual closed disciplinary investigations conducted by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) and the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) Bureau of Internal Affairs (BIA). In the course of these reviews, OIG identified issues with COPA’s use of “administrative termination” to conclude disciplinary investigations short of an investigative finding.
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