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CHICAGO LODGE 7
Official Magazine
President’s Report
FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE #7
EXECUTIVE BOARD
KEVIN GRAHAM
President
PATRICK J. MURRAY
First Vice President
Martin Preib
Second Vice President
Jay R. Ryan
Third Vice President
Greg Bella
Recording Secretary
Michael P. Garza
Financial Secretary
John Capparelli
Treasurer
Dean C. Angelo, Sr.
Immediate Past President
Sergeants-at-Arms
William Burns James Jakstavich Michael Mette
Trustees
Harold Brown Andrew Cantore Mark Donahue William Dougherty Pat Duckhorn Sergio Escobedo Fernando Flores Joseph Gentile Danny Gorman Ken Hauser Rick King Frank Quinn Carlos Salazar Ron Shogren Mark Tamlo Daniel Trevino Michael Underwood
Field Representatives
Robert Bartlett Rich Aguilar
City is out of order with
the way orders are being
changed and administered
As we start the new year, I want to tell you that the entire FOP is joining me in looking at new ways to protect our members from frivolous and unsub- stantiated complaints.
I have always been willing to listen to different accounts, points of view and suggestions from the public, the Department and the City. However, it is disheartening when the City consistently refuses to negotiate the orders that impact the members, which is required by our contract.
While we are in contract negotiations, it will be my intention to impose penalties upon both the Department and any investigative agency that makes false or misleading complaints against our members. There is a clear need to do so
because of the way some people are doing business with Chicago Lodge 7.
The new General Order, G0 8–01, Complaint and Disciplinary Procedure, requires par- ties to sign a sworn affidavit is not required by COPA, members of the office of the In- spector General or other members of law enforcement. None of these reporting parties is
identified as exceptions under our collective bargaining agreement.
Despite what the City might think, it is required to sign the affidavit or the investigation does not go forward. Anybody telling you otherwise is either grievously misinformed or a
liar. Perhaps the ones who do so should be brought up on a Rule 14 violation.
That is the strongest language I can use under the circumstances to express my feelings about what is happening with this order, and it is despicable to me that there are people who are trying to undermine your rights and our contract. They should be ashamed of themselves. They have no business investigating law enforcement officers and they have
no business in the public sector.
Since I have been Chicago Lodge 7 President, I have stated that if you want to be treated
fairly you have to start by treating Police officers fairly. And that is not being done.
Take Special Order S08-01-04 Sustained Complaint Options for example. This order is inconsistent with the file destruction provision of the collective bargaining agreement as set forth in Section 8. For our contract, it’s one of the most significant changes. It limits the destruction of old CRs and other references to IPRA/COPA. Also, none of these incon- sistencies or changes was highlighted when the new order was updated from the 2013
version.
Several of the new orders in disciplinary procedures use the term “number” instead of a
“complete registry number.” This is a significant change due to the fact that load numbers are only there until they are converted to a CR number, and, at that point, certain triggers are pulled for an investigation. Additionally, the words “medical roll abuse” have been changed to “medical policy abuse.” Once again, these are significant changes that are not management’s right to make. They need to be negotiated. d
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