Denver police sergeant suspended for misusing federal crime database

A Denver Police Department sergeant is in trouble after he left his district during a patrol shift and misused a federal criminal database in an attempt to find his daughter’s missing cellphone.
Sgt. Joseph Rodarte will be suspended without pay for three days for failing to obey departmental rules about using the National Crime Information Center database and failing to devote his duty time to patrolling, according to a copy of his June 23 disciplinary letter obtained by The Denver Post.
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