OPD will likely get a slap on the wrist from the city’s ethics watchdog for using restricted funds to pay for police officers’ trips to Washington D.C. for a memorial event last year.
According to an investigation by PEC staff, the police department spent $12,000 for 11 police officers to go to an annual officers’ memorial in the nation’s capital.
OPD officers attended the 43rd Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Services in D.C. in May 2024. The department sent a delegation to accompany the mother and wife of Officer Tuan Le, who was killed in the line of duty in December 2023…