According to police sources speaking to the News Report on Monday, an NYPD captain was fired from his position when it was discovered that he was awarded for further than 400 hours or nearly $60,000 that he had never put in.
Jackson Cheng, a now-retired police officer, declined to comment.
However, a source acquainted with his case claimed that the 19-year veteran acknowledged the allegations against him to escape being fired and was thus let to leave with a partial pension.
According to police, Cheng, 45, during a departmental inquiry, was taking care of his ailing parents at least a portion of the time he was supposed to be employed as a police captain in southern Brooklyn.
Although noting that there were no special circumstances or hardships to excuse Cheng’s failure to report to work when he claimed to, the NYPD judge, in the case of Paul Gamble, advised against firing Cheng and stated the officer should be permitted to leave with his retirement.
Police Chief Keechant Sewell rendered a verdict on the matter.
The NYPD was advised to fire Cheng by the dept’s prosecutor, but the commissioner disregarded the advice and permitted Cheng to leave with a half pension.
According to authorities, Cheng discovered that he was on the payroll but had not worked for 432 hours & 37 minutes between May 2019 and October 2020.
According to authorities, the total also contains 196 hours and 34 minutes of overtime.
The source claimed that Cheng had agreed to repay just under $1,200 in overtime and that the leftover overtime hours would be against future vacation days.
What does The Report State?
The report states that Cheng claimed to have operated remotely during the epidemic despite not being authorized.
The fired captain also stated that he had been a task captain, requiring NYPD detectives to work at crime sites throughout the five boroughs during part of the additional hours rather than at their desks.
According to police, the misconduct was uncovered during a routine examination of overtime, and the Internal Investigations Bureau was tasked with conducting the investigation.
When the Asian Racially Motivated Task Force was established in 2020, Cheng was a commissioner.
When the dept’s Asian-American Senior Executive Council was established a year later, he was appointed vice president.
According to Cheng’s union representative Chris Monahan, the captain would not leave with his state pension.
