Date of Offense
Offense(s)
Official Statement
Terminated: Yes
Demoted: No
Suspended: No
Other Sanction:
Resigned, retired, transferred, or separated while case was pending: No
# of Days Suspended:
Sustained Charge: Neglect of Duty, The severity of the discipline is based on several sustained complaints against the officer within the previous twelve‐month period.
Description: Summary of Allegations
During a shift in February 2023, Police Officer Paul Krzewinski was on duty assigned to a marked patrol vehicle. Officer Krzewinski was dispatched to a suspicious person complaint at a parking lot on University Place. The report came from a forty‐year employee who has been parking in that lot for decades. The reporting person stated the vehicle and individual had been sitting in the lot for over a week with the vehicle idling as early as 7am in the morning. The person reporting felt certain that she knows just about all her co‐workers and contractors that park in the lot and this person was neither. The officer told the reporting person that he would check on the suspicious person. Upon returning to his patrol vehicle after transmitting back to dispatch that the vehicle was still there, Officer Krzewinski rode past the vehicle two times, checked the vehicle’s registration, and then departed the area. The officer never approached the driver and took no further action.
Summary of Factual Findings
Officer Krzewinski failed to thoroughly investigate a call for service. Officer Krzewinski had ample information regarding a suspicious person sitting in a vehicle for extended periods on multiple days, but the only action taken by the officer was to check for the vehicle’s ownership. After determining the vehicle owner was believed not to be affiliated with the university, the officer concluded the investigation without speaking to the person involved.
1. Neglect of Duty
Finding: Sustained
Disciplined Imposed: Termination. The severity of the discipline is based on several sustained complaints against the officer within the previous twelve‐month period.
