Newly appointed Cleveland Police Chief Mark Gibson terminated three employees of the department who were caught in scandals over the past several months.
Carl Walls, Chad Nave and Edwin Millan were all three terminated Wednesday, according to Evie West, spokeswoman for the Cleveland Police Department.
"The officers of the Cleveland Police Department are held to the high standards of a code of ethics that should recognize the badge of our office as a symbol of public faith," said Gibson in a written statement. "This oath represents our commitment to uphold the law and we accept it as public trust by the citizens of Cleveland who we have sworn to serve and protect."
Gibson continued to say that the action of these officers shows an "egregious failure" to uphold these standards.
Three Cleveland police officers were fired on Oct. 1 for various offenses. "I found no other disciplinary alternative other than termination," Gibson said.
Walls and Nave were previously investigated by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and suspended from the police department after a sex scandal erupted in which both officers were accused of having affairs while on duty.
Millan was arrested and charged by the Bradley County Grand Jury with insurance fraud over $10,000, conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and filing a false report, according to Steve Crump, district attorney in the 10th Judicial District.
The conduct of these officers is just the latest in a series of scandals that have erupted within the Cleveland Police Department for years.
City leaders are hoping the appointment of Gibson as the new police chief marks the end of years of turmoil and scandal in the Cleveland Police Department.
Timeline of Cleveland police scandals
Sept. 16: Cleveland police officer Edwin Millan arrested and charged with arson and insurance fraud. Aug. 19: Sgt. Eddie Bonnett was placed on administrative leave after a female officer complained to her supervisor that Bonnett, her shift sergeant, texted an "inappropriate" photo from his personal cellphone to hers. Aug. 7: Officers Carlton Walls and Chad Nave are placed on administrative leave to investigate allegations of extramarital sex and a woman's accusation that she was sexually assaulted July 31 at a rented cabin in Gatlinburg. June: Lt. Steve Tyson and Officer Jeffrey Griggsdemotions and reassignments upheld for policy violations related to investigation of ex-Chief Dennis Maddux's affair with Griggswife. May: Maddux submits retirement letter after internal affairs investigators said he lied about the relationship and events involving Cindy Griggs. February: Officer Jeff Griggs finds his wife and Maddox trysting in a car across the county line in Calhoun, Tenn. January 2014: Longtime Chief Wes Snyder retires after surveillance video showed him meeting a woman at a warehouse storage unit fitted out with a rug, blankets and a bottle of brandy. July 2013: Former Officer Ross Wooten is suspended and later resigns over the third allegation of sexual misconduct since he joined the department in 2004. The woman also sued him in federal court. May 2013: Sgt. Bill Higdon is terminated for repeated policy violations two months after suggestive texts and explicit photos from him turn up on the phone of a high-dollar prostitute whose death by gunshot was ruled a suicide. December 2011: Snyder claims there was no evidence to investigate allegations of that officers were giving pills and alcohol to teenage girls and having sex with them before one officer shot and wounded another in December 2008. An investigation led to the imprisonment of Officers Dennis Hughes and Nathan Thomas on charges of having sex with 14- and 16-year-old girls.