Attleboro, MA- Police receive a complaint against two officers which falls on deaf ears.

The Attleboro Police Department took a complaint of misconduct and threatening behavior by one of its officers and ignored it.

Retired East Greenwich Police Lt. Steven Vander Pyl, who was on the job for more than two decades, said he is still waiting to hear back from someone at the police department regarding his verbal, then written complaint about an officer, which he filed back in August.

Vander Pyl claims he was threatened and insulted with racial slurs by one of two officers and told to never come back to Attleboro during an incident on Aug. 27. Vander Pyl, who manages property at 102 and 104 Pond St. in South Attleboro, was told by officers to leave the property he manages.

Police had been called to the property by Tyler Corsi, the son of a tenant who was in the process of eviction. Corsi called police after Vander Pyl had removed an old bumper and other rubbish from the property. Vander Pyl, who was in the process of painting the interior and cleaning the exterior, said he locked the apartment, got his briefcase and stood by his truck waiting for officers to arrive.

"Both white male officers exited their cruisers without their covers (hats)," Vander Pyl writes in his letter to the then-internal affairs supervisor, Capt. Kyle Heagney. "The shorter officer with dark hair walked directly to me and said, 'This is the second [expletive] time I've been here today and I'm sick of it get in your [expletive] truck and get the [expletive] out of here.'"

In his letter to police, Vander Pyl said he asked the officer for his name because he did not see a name tag or badge number on the officer. Vander Pyl made it clear in his letter that the second officer stayed by the cruiser and seemed disgusted by the first officer's actions.

That last comment prompted Vander Pyl to contact the head of internal affairs, Capt. Kyle Heagney. Vander Pyl said Heagney was astounded by what had happened, and he emailed a complaint form to Vander Pyl. The retired lieutenant filled out the form and personally delivered it to the Attleboro station.

"I haven’t heard anything from anyone from the Attleboro Police Department since I dropped off the complaint (in August)," Vander Pyl said. "I never heard from Capt. Heagney, nor did I hear from Chief [Richard] Pierce.


Link:
http://attleboro.patch.com/articles/complaint-against-attleboro-police-officer-goes-unanswered-by-administration