After concluding that the Boston Police Department (BPD)’s review of a candidate for police officer was flawed and incomplete, the Commission overturned the BPD’s decision to bypass the candidate for appointment and ordered that he be reconsidered in a future hiring cycle.
The Commission affirmed the suspension of fire alarm operator with the Boston Fire Department for one-tour after finding he was responsible for a lapse in judgement that caused a delay in responding to a fire emergency in a 12-story residential building in down-town Boston.
The Commission reduced the suspension of a New Bedford school custodian from 5-days to 3-days, after he failed to follow a newly amended sick-day notification policy on two different occasions where the school failed to give him a reasonable notice in advance about the new policy when the first violation was committed.
