Town officials remain silent on the reason(s) for Wayman’s resignation but TFoTM has obtained information and reports documenting a “hit & run” accident that Wayman was allegedly involved in and attempted to cover up. The misconduct was exposed to town officials by this blog.
The “CRTU” is comprised of officers handpicked by Wayman, including his nephew, loyal to the disgraced ex-chief.
The disbanding of this unit will save taxpayers $tens of thousands$ in wasteful spending for services that duplicated patrol and detective duties.
This appears to be just the beginning of Acting Chief Chris Battiloro’s elimination of wasteful spending and the “misappropriation of funds” Wayman had allegedly been accused of.
TFoTM looks forward to the continued restructuring of the Westfield Police Department and elimination of wasteful spending that has cost the taxpayers $hundreds of thousands$ during Wayman’s tainted tenure as police chief.
NOTE: TFoTM has withheld the identity of the WPD officer assigned to the Union County Gangs, Drugs, and Violent Crimes Task Force for safety and security reasons.
WESTFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM
To: All Personnel
From: Acting Chief Christopher Battiloro
Subject: Community Response Tactical Unit
Date: August 10, 2018
CC: Captain John Ricerca
Effective Saturday , August 25, 2018, at 2000 hrs, the Community Response Tactical Unit shall be disbanded.
The officers presently assigned to the Community Response Tactical Unit shall be reassigned to the Operations (Patrol) Division, with the exception of Officer (name withheld) who shall remain assigned to the Union County Gangs, Guns, Drugs, and Violent Crimes Task Force until further notice.
Any matters currently under investigation by the Community Response Tactical Unit shall be transferred to the Detective Bureau and it’s supervisors shall review them. Those deemed to warrant further investigation shall be assigned to Detectives for action and those deemed not to warrant further investigation shall be closed.
The officers being reassigned shall be contacted by Captain John Ricerca in the very near future
regarding their platoon and shift assignments.
I’m curious how a WPD internal memo shows up verbatim on this blog site within a day of it being sent? Certainly not enough time for the blogger to have put in an OPRA request! Seems like the WPD has a snitch!
ReplyDeleteUmm, has your head been in the sand?
DeleteA snitch or just someone really happy to see Wayman gone along with all his bs.
DeleteTFoTM has avenues of information that it will not disclose.
ReplyDeleteLooks like there might be an anonymous person that is upset the CRTU is being disbanded.
ReplyDeleteNo more picking mom up at lunch in Scotch Plains on company time in your unmarked police car and going shopping at Bridgewater Commons.
Which one of those morons did that?
DeleteI’m happy to see Battiloro dump this unit. It’s a drain on overtime and staffed by Wayman’s boys. The mayor and council need to look at the overtime Wayman bilked the town for because of the CRTU. The chief is a salaried employee that padded his wallet with questionable overtime. That’s what this website needs to investigate.
ReplyDeleteBut I can’t go back to uniform patrol.. I’ve only been a cop for 4 years!!
ReplyDeleteThe CRTU was nothing more than a patrolman, but not a detective, that bilked overtime for duties performed by patrolman and/or detectives.
ReplyDeleteMore heads will roll, the prosecutors office ain’t done yet. Wayman’s cronies are running scared.
ReplyDeleteYou mean soon to be Sgt. Lugo and Officer Tango?
DeleteWhat makes you think Lugo should keep his job? No integrity.
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