A Mass. police chief is resigning this month after an independent investigation found several violations of policy, including having sex with a subordinate and, at his swearing-in ceremony last year, referring to another sexual encounter.
The chief of police in Wayland, Massachusetts, is resigning this month after an independent investigation found several violations of policy, including having sex with a subordinate and, at his swearing-in ceremony last year, referring to another sexual encounter.
Chief Sean Gibbons' last day will be Dec. 20, the town said in a statement. With the department for 20 years, he served as chief for only a few months -- he was sworn in last December and put on leave March 31, after allegations against him surfaced. The town hired the law firm Clifford & Kenny to review the allegations, and the results were returned to the town in September saying Gibbons violated departmental policy on sexual harassment and more.
"We take all allegations of misconduct very seriously. We do not tolerate violations of any of our policies," the vice chair of the town's Select Board, Dave Watkins, said in a statement on the board's behalf.Sign up for NECN newsletters.Gibbons admitted to having sex with someone whom he was overseeing and training, and who wanted to be be a full-time officer in the department, when he was a patrol office in 2003, according to the investigation.
While the investigation couldn't corrobrate some of the other person's allegations, it noted that"it was extremely inappropriate for Chief Gibbons to make comments about [the other person's] apperance and initiate a sexual relationship."
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