PHOENIX (AP) — A Cochise County Sheriff’s deputy who was fired for paying a Phoenix stripper for sex while he was in the city for a training exercise is trying to get his job back.
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Anderson’s case became publicly known this week when the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board heard a report on the matter.
The board decided to investigate whether Anderson’s officer certification should be revoked.
Fired officers are free to apply elsewhere unless they lose their certificates.
According to the report to the board, Anderson and another deputy drove to Phoenix in his marked patrol vehicle last April for a training class.
After the class, the deputies drove to a central Phoenix strip club, where Anderson drank 14 to 18 beers and paid a dancer for several private and public dances.
Anderson then asked the stripper to return to his hotel room, where he paid her $300 to perform a sex act. The board was told the second deputy apparently left the room during the encounter.
The next day, Anderson called his supervisor and told him about the strip club visit and that he paid for dances. Soon after, the other Cochise County deputy told another supervisor what had occurred.
Anderson was terminated from the Sheriff’s Office after an internal affairs investigation.
Cochise County Sheriff Office’s spokeswoman Carol Capas said the agency followed its policies and procedures during its investigation of Anderson.
The behavior of the four-year veteran assigned to the Bisbee patrol area is “not the type of activity condoned” by Cochise County officials, Capas said. Anderson received a commendation in February 2008 for his actions in talking a suicidal person from the edge of a waterfall.
Comments
Rossi wrote on Feb 25, 2009 4:19 PM:
Re-hire the deputy, uh...he made a mistake... Worked for Daschel & Geithner.... "