By O’Ryan Johnson and Michele McPhee
Wednesday, August 1, 2007 - Updated: 05:22 AM EST
The Boston Police Department is mailing questionnaires to the 540 patrolmen who took the defunct June detectives exam in an attempt to identify who leaked information about the exam to a cadre of cops.
“The police commissioner wants to get to the bottom of this,” said BPD spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll.
Rather than call in more than 500 patrolmen for individual interviews the Internal Affairs Department has mailed questionnaires to patrolmen who signed up for the exam asking them who knew what and when.
There are three questions on the form, which patrolmen started to receive yesterday. While two ask about the June test, the third is vague and could unfairly apply to patrolmen who took test preparation classes, according to union officials.
Boston Police Patrolmen Union President Thomas Nee said the union also wants to get to the bottom of the exam scam, however it does not want BPPA members to fall under the microscope of an internal investigation without cause.
“Under no circumstances are we looking to obstruct this thing,” Nee said. “This is about narrowing it. We want it specific to this exam.”
Nee said the union is mailing a letter to cops who received the questionnaire explaining to them how to answer the question.
Police sources have said the exam was thrown out after some officers were given word for word answers to a handful of questions that appeared on the test. The department said the test was thrown out after some officers were told none of the questions came from a certain book.
“We hope and expect the officers will participate in our efforts to get to the bottom of this,” Driscoll said.
A police department source said officers who do not answer the questions may be found in violation of internal rules and regulations and face discipline.
Boston Police Department is currently short 70 detectives. A makeup exam is scheduled for September. Police Commissioner Edward Davis said the exams will be graded and new detectives should hit the streets by December.
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