This story was updated at 5:12 p.m. with more information.
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Ten Chattanooga Police Department officers have been reassigned and will not be allowed to testify in court because they have been untruthful or misrepresented information in the past.
“It is unacceptable that a case could be jeopardized due to an integrity issue with an officer who was found to have previously misrepresented the truth or filed a false report,” Police Chief Celeste Murphy said in a news release.
The department recently received a request from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for a list of officers who had “sustained allegations of untruthfulness or misrepresentation,” the news release stated. The department provided the list of 10 officers to federal and state prosecutors, Assistant Chief Jerri Sutton, the department’s spokeswoman, said in the release.