Eight Fresno police officers were terminated in 2023, and half of those were fired in the last quarter of the year, according to the latest report from the Office of Independent Review .
The quarterly reports do not describe which misconduct led to which kind of discipline; it reports raw numbers and a few details from most cases.
Certain cases are highlighted with more details by the report’s author, former FBI agent and Independent Reviewer John Gliatta.
Along with four terminations in the last three months of last year by Fresno Police Department, one officer resigned in lieu of termination, nine were suspended for a total of 530 hours and nine were ordered to attend more training, the report said .
There were 79 disciplinary actions in all of 2023, which was higher than the past two years of 58 in 2023 and 59 actions in 2022, the report says. There were 84 in 2020.
New policies for Fresno police
Chief Paco Balderrama implemented a new policy that began Oct. 6 and requires officers to turn on their body-worn cameras when they begin a Code 3 response, which is when an officer responds to a call or begins a pursuit that requires lights and sirens in a police cruiser, the report notes.