New NYPD policy bans romantic relationships between bosses and subordinates

Sgt. Marcy Velez had an affair together with his subordinate officer beginning in 2019, in response to police sources.
Brigitte Stelzer

The brand new NYPD motto is courtesy, professionalism — however no romance.

The division quietly issued orders banning steamy relationships between bosses and subordinates, weeks after a lap-dance scandalrocked the division, The Submit has discovered.

The change, which was made to the NYPD’s Patrol Information for officers, particularly places the kibosh on courting between supervisors and workers whom they usually supervise. 

The brand new rules dictate that affairs between supervisors and subordinates will end result within the switch of “one of many concerned events” and that cops ought to notify the job of such entanglements.

“Members of the service are strongly inspired to make a notification requesting a switch so as to keep away from office disruption,” the brand new guidelines state.

A high-ranking supply mentioned the change went into impact on April 4, and insisted it had nothing to do with any particular incident.

“No connection to something however normal follow in most professional environments and overdue right here,” the supply mentioned.

Nonetheless, the change comes months after The Submit broke a narrative a couple of video that circulated, exhibiting a male supervisor getting a lap dance from an underling at a bar.

The Bronx rookie and lieutenant had been at a raucous vacation bash at a Yonkers bar in December when the steamy incident was filmed.

The incident infuriated division higher-ups, who booted the boss to Transit, in response to sources. It wasn’t clear if the feminine officer was disciplined.

In one other case that appeared to cross a line, a NYPD sergeant bought his rookie cop driver pregnant — whereas his personal spouse was pregnant.

Sgt. Marcy Velez, 44, of the Bronx’s forty fifth Precinct, had the affair together with his subordinate officer beginning in 2019 when she was in her early 20s and recent out of the police academy, sources acquainted with the matter mentioned. The romance was probed by the Inside Affairs Bureau.

Footage of the raucous vacation celebration in Yonkers was reported on by The Submit.

The incident between the rookie and veteran infuriated division higher-ups, in response to sources.

The order additionally forbids relationships past official duties “with confidential informants, witnesses or victims whereas on or off obligation” and any “youth/younger grownup assigned to the varied applications the division operates.”

A police supply with greater than 20 years on the job mentioned the brand new guidelines had been lengthy overdue.

“I feel it’s nice,” the supply mentioned. “It lets the supervisors be supervisors as an alternative of fraternizing with their underlings. Now you possibly can’t abuse your energy as a result of that’s what they do. They abuse their energy and play on the weak. Now if the allegation comes out, your ass is grass and who desires to threat their profession for that?”