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Posted by: PBC FL Cop

Thursday, July 27, 2006
Warren police officer resigns

Bednarz met with selectmen

By J.P. Ellery CORRESPONDENT

WARREN— A police sergeant who has been accused of pointing a weapon at a fellow Warren police officer resigned last night.

After a 35-minute closed-door meeting of the Board of Selectmen, it was announced that Sgt. Jeffrey Y. Bednarz, 27, of Warren had quit.

“The board has just accepted the resignation of Sgt. Bednarz from the Police Department of the town of Warren,” Selectman Chairman Martin A. Nofio said after the closed-door meeting.

Sgt. Bednarz had been on paid leave since February, making about $820 a week, according to Selectman Marc W. Richard.

In the interim, State Police conducted an investigation into the allegations against the sergeant. Based on a statement filed by State Police, Sgt. Bednarz, who faces court arraignment Aug. 28 in Worcester on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, allegedly aimed a pistol at Officer Mark J. Chase last November while the two sat in a marked cruiser. The cruiser was in the parking lot of the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Southbridge Road.

Sgt. Bednarz, the statement indicated, spoke with a woman on a cell phone while in the parked cruiser. Officer Chase reportedly stated that the woman was Sgt. Benarz’s girlfriend and that he (Chase) also spoke with the woman and made some comments to her that Sgt. Bednarz reacted to.

James B. Triplett, Sgt. Bednarz’s lawyer, told the Telegram & Gazette last month that his client is “absolutely innocent.” He repeated that assertion last night, but offered no other comment.

Sgt. Bednarz declined to answer questions.

Asked if there were any conditions attached to the resignation, Selectman David A. Delanski said no. He referred any other questions to Police Chief Glenn F. McKiel, who had left after the closed session but promised to make a statement today.

Sgt. Bednarz was hired as a part-time police officer in Warren in 1999 and was promoted to sergeant in 2003. He also was a semifinalist for chief of the Warren department in late 2002.

The department consists of seven full-time police officers and six part-time officers.

Posted by: badgebunny

Hmmmm....

Posted by: spd1997

This is not over yet.....

Posted by: badgebunny

Hmmmm....

Posted by: firing squad

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Originally Posted by spd1997

This is not over yet.....

Your right. This is not over yet. Bednarz has now recruited people that Chase has arrested and has started a campain around town to have people file complaints against Chase to the PD and to the State Police.

He should remember that there are many more skeletons in his closet that he does not want to get out.

So you are right, I guess it's not over yet......... there's always the civil suit!

Posted by: spd1997

You should really let people think you are an ingnoranus rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.......
One more thing, just because you write under a different name does not mean you can tell people that you are undercover...

Posted by: firing squad

Interesting also, why would someone who was so innocent resign??? If I was in the "right" and was being "wronged" I would certainly fight it to the end.

Posted by: id1811xecj

Quote:

Originally Posted by PBC FL Cop

Sgt. Bednarz was hired as a part-time police officer in Warren in 1999 and was promoted to sergeant in 2003. He also was a semifinalist for chief of the Warren department in late 2002.

No one should be a sergeant with 4 years experience, some of it as a part time.

Posted by: Macop

Not true

Posted by: badgebunny

[quote=firing squad]Interesting also, why would someone who was so innocent resign??? If I was in the "right" and was being "wronged" I would certainly fight it to the end.[/quote

So true my friend!

Posted by: Pacman

People give up so easy nowadays. Sorry to see this happened at all.

Posted by: spd1997

[quote=badgebunny]

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Originally Posted by firing squad

Interesting also, why would someone who was so innocent resign??? If I was in the "right" and was being "wronged" I would certainly fight it to the end.[/quote

So true my friend!

Not true, and I hope you do not have to find out. These processes are designed to make you take a deal even if you are right.

The person who is wrong will resign immediately. Everyone I have ever seen who did something wrong resigned immediately with out a fight.

The person who is right will fight for awhile and after all their money is gone the town will offer a deal to end it....

Stage one, they throw everything at you and use the press to embarrass you so your reputation is damaged for ever.... Also hoping that you resign. They will offer you the old "If you resign this will go away." When you don't take that they come at you with everything.

Stage two, the town and union stall for months and months hoping to starve you out.......... Stress sets in.

Stage three you run out of money and usually by this time even if you win there is nothing to come back to except a hostile shell of the place you once worked in.

Then the useless union and town offer you a deal and you take it..........

Fighting it to the end is noble but not realistic if you have a house, mortgage, kids, bills..............etc....

If you do fight it will take years and years to win and then fight appeals...... Why do that when you can move on..............

Besides if you are innocent then that means you got a raw deal. You probably got screwed over by your town's selectman or your own brother cops screwed you over. Why would anyone want to return to that mess.......?

If you are innocent then you are. If you are guilty then charges will stick. Why would a town offer you a deal if you are guilty? They would just fire you period and their would be no rebuttle.

Posted by: RPD931

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Originally Posted by spd1997

You should really let people think you are an ingnoranus rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.......
One more thing, just because you write under a different name does not mean you can tell people that you are undercover...

SPD or STD,

Get a grip. "Firing squad" is NOT me. Gil or any other moderator here can tell you that.

There's a reason you're in Vermont. Man, I don't even know you. I met you once, but you enjoy bashing me. If that's what you like, enjoy. I don't reply to about 90% of your bashes because I could really care less.

Oh yeah, I think you should find out who really threw you under the bus that made you head north a couple years ago..... I know.

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Stage two, the town and union stall for months and months hoping to starve you out.......... Stress sets in.

He was still getting paid (public info, just read the paper). House was sold before, no mortgage (also covered by the media).

The recent events that happened to him are extremely unfortunate and sad. It sucks. No one is "Happy".

But I never heard anyone say that they were sad or disappointed when you left. How's the arm?

Posted by: spd1997

No further questions your honor............

Posted by: badgebunny

spd1997...dude you don't know the whole situation nor do I so we should not make statements in regards to what the town did or did not do. However if you have more than one person stating the same thing about someone then would you or would you not agree there might be some truth to their side of the story or do you just believe one person's story (i.e. in this case former Sgt. Bednarz)? Only asking you a question.

Posted by: spd1997

Quote:

Originally Posted by badgebunny

spd1997...dude you don't know the whole situation nor do I so we should not make statements in regards to what the town did or did not do. However if you have more than one person stating the same thing about someone then would you or would you not agree there might be some truth to their side of the story or do you just believe one person's story (i.e. in this case former Sgt. Bednarz)? Only asking you a question.

My statement about Officers resigning was a "General statement". It is my opinion on how it works in General. I was not making a statement about any particular town. I did not mention Warren or any other town. You and RPD did. I know a lot of cases where cops screwed up and they resigned immediately. I also no cases where cops were screwed over and fought it only to resign after months of BS and being starved out by the process.

If you and RPD want to ramble on about Warren that would be your opinions. I was making a general statement.

You said originally that officers should not resign if they are innocent. You said that they should fight it to the end. Something to the effect of why would officer resign if they are innocent. Go back and read your quote. Go back and read my response. I do not speak of Warren's current situation.

Let me summarize again, I made a general statement on how I believe the resignation process is used in MA policing. I was not talking about anyone or any case in particular. The resignation process is a weapon of choice in non civil service departments. It is used when a personality conflict arises. It might be a Board of Selectman that does not like a Chief. It might be a Chief, LT, CPT, SGT, who does not like a subordinate.

Next the person is under the microscope. Ridden hard. Written up, or they decide not to reappoint the Chief for no reason. There have been some good Chiefs that were forced out because they would not play ball with the Board. In the case of an officer he or she is charged, written up, complained about. Then the process starts.

Because you two brought it up, I will say that going to the State Police without going to your Chief first is way out of line. What the hell were they thinking? Going over the Chief's head? If I was the Chief I would be furious. That is not a normal thing to do. The Chief should have handled it within. It never should have gone to where it is now. Looks to me that a couple of individuals were trying to make name for themselves. The kids on the street refer to that as “RATS”. The Chief should handle house business. If it is something bad then the Chief should decide on what to do, i.e. Terminate, Suspend, EAP, etc....

The complainants either have no faith in their Chief, and from reading the Chief is well liked by his officers and 100 other emails, so that is not the case.

or

The complainants were insubordinate and failed to use the chain of command. i.e. Let the Chief handle it or the Board of Selectman.

Let me tell you I would just feel great about working with coworkers who want to run to the State Police with interdepartmental BS. (note the sarcasm)

Officers who screw up usually walk without any fight. I have seen too many Officers and even Chiefs become the focus of a Board of Selectman or a Personality conflict and get run out. It is like throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. A bunch of bogus violations are put up. They get suspended or investigated. The press runs with it. The hearings go into executive session. The union balks. The employee's reputation is damaged and the officer runs out of money fighting it. His friends avoid him or turn on him and so on....

RPD I wish I was there to watch your lips move while you read this. You need to save your personal slams for Pm's or something. It is only bringing you down. It looks bad and unprofessional.

Do your homework will ya. Several officers and or employees have left your precious department. They are all still on the job. Two are in Vermont. One is in Connecticut. The rest are officers in Mass. Some were promoted and obtained better jobs. The others have moved on to other law enforcement jobs. All are doing fine.

Lastly, I assure you I have never met you.

Posted by: RPD931

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RPD I wish I was there to watch your lips move while you read this. You need to save your personal slams for Pm's or something. It is only bringing you down. It looks bad and unprofessional.

Lastly, I assure you I have never met you.

Interesting, you rant over and over about things I do... or the way you think I am, and members of my PD. You type RPD this or that, or this or that. You only post in response to or with a reply to something involving Warren. You're the slammer. You're an ouster - because your service is in Vermont. Your information is extremely incorrect.

I would have no problem sharing your story. Contrary to what you stated before about "talking too much" with an agreement signed by the town, I did not see nor sign any agreement and the agreement was made BEFORE my hire, - therefore I am not bound by such.

I would PM you if I could.. but you no longer have that option available... you may not be able to sign on soon. You didn't figure things out after logging in as "Warren Resident" before? Feel free to email me anytime.

Quote:

I will say that going to the State Police without going to your Chief first is way out of line.

This statement alone shows that you do NOT know what happened. You have gotten a few negative replies here from several people because you are way-off. I'd love to know who is feeding you the info, but I'm pretty sure I know who it is....

I strongly encourage any of my current or former colleagues to chime in now.....

Posted by: lpwpd722

RPD, Some people have always been good at singling other people out for their own enjoyment. I think it's part of the "illness". I seen it happen so much my first few years as an employee. It was so obvious to everyone. But, I tried to be a friend and dismiss it. I only wish I had the nerve to go to the higher ups. Don't worry about the hot air that keeps spewing your way. I've seen it happen to so many people. He'll find someone else to take a personal campaign against soon. At least you didn't have bumper stickers and petitions made against you yet. I'm glad I work with you. I know what a true professional you are. Sorry, you are so wrong in this vendetta, as you have been in the past. Please go about your business, I have been reading this b.s. on and off for the past few years since you've been gone. Key word "gone". Go live your life to the fullest and leave other people alone. Thank you

Posted by: badgebunny

spd1997....First let me just say that I only agreed with a statement that was made. Second I was only asking you a simple question in regards to what this thread has evolved into based off of what you posted. Why do you get so defensive? Chill out!

Also I know many officers in the town of Warren and I know what kind of people they are. How dare you insinuate that they are "rats" (again I am taking something you said in your post). Like I said before you don't know the entire story nor do I, but I do know how loyal these guys are to their department and to their chief.

One final thought I have....wonder how you seem to know soooo much about Warren and the officers and what they do/did. Hmmm.....

Posted by: ODIE16

This is getting to be ridiculous, first off spd1997 you have no idea what is really going on. You are getting half truths from a liar, which to me seems to be funny seeing how when you were here he was first in line to throw you under the bus. Not many of the current members of the Warren Dept. had the displeasure of working with but some of us did and we were able to witness your wicked ways first hand. One of your problems then was not being able to let things go and apparently that has not changed much. This Dept. is very loyal to each other and to the chief, not like previous members ( old W4, W5). There is so much more that you don't know, however it seems like a waste of time to go on with you because you are always right and always were..... and that is you are in VT now..... Good luck and grow up.

Posted by: firing squad

How true, Odie. Guys, realize who you are dealing with here....... . Enough said!

He must miss the days in Warren....... harassing the poor guy who had ponies in his back yard, making bumper stickers to harass another town resident, making hats with a certain saying to harass someone else, playing detective in his own personally owned crown vic, riding around town in uniform on his days off in his personally owned crown vic, and last but not least, being a personal henchman. This is the kind of cop that we all dislike, the kind of cop that makes all others look bad.

You are a loser..... and an unintelligent person overall. You know, we know, and now the members of masscops know it. This is a guy who failed as a police officer at Warren PD, now he has made it a part-time job to harass the people who still work there.

Let's change this moron's screen name to the "Vermont Sniper"..... sitting up in God's country sending his daily snipes to the strong-standing members of the PD that got rid of him. Time to move on man!

Posted by: badgebunny

Hmmm.....

Posted by: spd1997

Lets all agree on one thing.

The Redsox are great.

They just won another in the 9th................

Posted by: PBC FL Cop

The Chief was on "Haunted Evidence" last night reference the Molly Bish case. Psychics reviewed the investigation, interestingly however MSP detectives were not on the program. Aren't they the lead investigators on that case?? I'm curious who called in the psychics??

Posted by: RPD931

Quote:

Originally Posted by PBC FL Cop

The Chief was on "Haunted Evidence" last night reference the Molly Bish case. Psychics reviewed the investigation, interestingly however MSP detectives were not on the program. Aren't they the lead investigators on that case?? I'm curious who called in the psychics??

The show's producers "called in the psychics", it's a TV show. The show was NOT generated by Law Enforcement. The producers came up with it...

Posted by: PBC FL Cop

Fair enough!!

Posted by: BROWNIE

Neither parties are the picture of morality...they are both f-ed up. I have had the pleasure of meeting both parties and both got a couple of screws missing, one thinks he is invincible, the other got caught.

Posted by: BROWNIE

odie wears a thong

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