Cleveland’s ex-Police Chief Dennis Maddux cruising around a neighboring county with his subordinate’s wife in a borrowed dark blue Cadillac is not the problem. Neither is the two’s affair.
The problem is the pile of lies. And the failure to follow police department policy.
Cleveland police officer Jeff Griggs, Lt. Steve Tyson and Maddux each face termination for violating department policy over that February car ride and subsequent events, according to an internal affairs investigation released Wednesday.
Investigators found that Griggs and Maddux each lied about the events that happened involving that car ride on Feb. 28. Lying violates Cleveland Police Department policy, which states “members must speak the truth at all times … this department will not tolerate any form of lying, and if an employee is found to lie he/she will receive discipline up to and including termination.”
The investigation finds all three men committed Class A policy violations, which according to the department’s policy “will result in termination unless there are mitigating factors involved to justify reduction of punishment.”