11 Investigates has learned that contract employees in the city of Pittsburgh are required to have specific background checks and clearances before conducting work in a police station.
According to Chief Investigator Rick Earle, during a recent theft investigation at the shared medic/police station in the city’s West End, officers discovered that the contract plumbers hired to fix a leak didn’t have the proper background checks and should not have been in the police station.
A medic at the station in the West End, which shares a building with Pittsburgh police, filed the theft report…