Investigation Focuses on One Phila. Police Officer
The investigation continues into allegations a cop stole money from the safe of a Frankford bar earlier this week.
KYW's Jim Melwert reports Commissioner Charles Ramsey held a news conference Thursday afternoon to update that investigation, and to set some facts straight.
Ramsey says surveillance tape from Pat's Cafe seems to show two of the three officers did not know the other possibly stole money from an opened safe.
All three officers are on desk duty, but the Commissioner says the two will likely be returned to active duty:
"The one officer who was observed going into what appears to be the safe on the tape obviously is an individual that continues to be a target."
A target of the internal investigation, and of the District Attorney's office.
Also, according to Ramsey, the officers did not drink any alcoholic beverages while in the bar.
This all happened around 4am on Tuesday.
Police were called to a burglary at an auto body shop on the 4600 block of Castor Avenue.
Three uniformed officers with the canine unit were securing the scene when they found the basement doors of nearby Pat's Cafe were left opened. There was also an open safe. Police say $825 in cash is missing from that safe.
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