WARREN Cop's wife is waiting for apology from chief

The service director says she'll get her letter.
By PEGGY SINKOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
WARREN -- The wife of a city police officer who filed an internal affairs reporting saying she was treated rudely by other officers is still waiting for an apology.
Paulette J. Edington said it's been a month since the police department's internal affairs department finished a report stating that officers were rude when she stopped to watch an arrest Oct. 30.
"I've only been notified through the article in The Vindicator," Edington said. "I thought the chief was supposed to notify me with a letter or that I would get an apology. I have received nothing."
Police Chief John Mandopoulos said he plans to notify Edington but has been busy.
"How many hours in a day does she want me to work?" the chief said. "Her complaint is not the only thing I have to do. There is some stuff that is much more important than these internal reports and no one looks at that part of it."
Doug Franklin, safety-service director, said he will make sure that Edington receives a letter from the city telling her the outcome of her complaint. "She deserves that and I will make sure it goes our immediately," Franklin said.
According to the complaint, she was driving near Commerce Street around 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30. She noticed several police cars and stopped to find out what happened.
Mrs. Edington said she got out of the car and noticed a canine officer and another officer with a tall young man who was face down on the pavement. The canine officer had his knee on the man's back, Mrs. Edington's complaint states.
The officers had detained numerous juveniles they believed were throwing eggs at cruisers, officials said.
The complaint notes that a few minutes later one of the officers asked her what she was looking at, and when she told them she was watching them, they ordered her to move her car.
The officers told her that her car was blocking traffic, the complaint says. She said the officer yelled at her and demanded she move her car.
She identified the officers involved as Tim Parana, Sean O'Rourke and Sgt. John Yuricek.
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