John A. Scrivanic Tinton Falls Police Chief |
90. Defendants also promoted Dean Duane, an officer with an extensive and significant history of physical and verbal altercations implicating his fitness for duty, including the following: (a) a physical altercation at work with a co-worker in or about 2004; (b) an off-duty incident where the officer attempted to hang onto the bus when it pulled away, followed the bus, and thereafter engaged the bus driver in a verbal altercation; and (c) an on-the-job incident in or about September 2010 wherein Duane slapped Plaintiff in the face.
91. Upon information and belief, on or about January 4, 2011, Duane punched a handcuffed sixteen-year-old juvenile in the face after responding to a call. Upon information and belief, the juvenile received a black eye and a broken nose and, the juvenile's mother has initiated the process to file an Internal Affairs (IA) complaint against Duane.On December 4, 2015, I filed an Open Public Record Act (OPRA) request for documents that would prove or disprove the existence of these Internal Affairs matters involving Lieutenant Duane. On December 22, 2015, I received a comprehensive response from the Borough.