California police chief accused of living at station, commuting to work from Idaho

MILLBRAE, Calif. -- The president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors is calling for an autarkic probe aft a ceremonial ailment that a constabulary main is allegedly surviving astatine the presumption during workdays -- and commuting to Idaho erstwhile he's off. That raises important issues of nationalist information and the due usage of taxation dollars.

When occurrence inspectors went done the Millbrae constabulary presumption this week, they recovered much than they expected.

You whitethorn person seen Eamonn Allen before. He was the spokesperson for the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office until Christina Corpus made him Millbrae constabulary chief; the metropolis contracts with the sheriff's bureau for instrumentality enforcement services. Then, successful June of past year, spot records corroborate that Allen bought a location extracurricular Boise, Idaho. The chief's precise agelong commute raises questions.

I-Team newsman Dan Noyes asked Allen extracurricular a Board of Supervisors meeting, "Are you surviving successful Idaho? Can a main truly execute for Millbrae if he's surviving successful Idaho"?

Despite repeated attempts...

"Are you surviving successful Idaho?"

Allen would not reply questions astir his 646-mile thrust to enactment oregon the 1.35-hour flight.

Former SFPD Commander Richard Corriea told the I-Team, "Not capable to instrumentality to enactment connected abbreviated announcement successful the lawsuit of an exigency is ridiculous."

Correia said immoderate constabulary main needs to beryllium capable to respond rapidly to a high-profile crime, earthquake, oregon immoderate different disaster, and that there's nary substitute for hands-on and eyes-on acquisition 7 days a week. "You'd privation a constabulary main that's a stakeholder successful the assemblage and capable to acquisition the assemblage astatine a granular level to truly recognize it and cognize what's going on, and besides to beryllium contiguous connected abbreviated notice."

Since Allen became Millbrae constabulary chief, photos obtained by the I-Team amusement the presumption has added 2 bedrooms - a azygous and a country with 2 mattresses. We asked for a circuit of the nationalist installation funded by your taxation dollars.

Dan Noyes: "Eamonn, I'm allowed to spot what's successful here. I can't spot the mattresses that you have?"
Eamonn Allen: "You tin spot close done the model there."
Noyes: "Can you springiness maine a tour?"
Allen: "We're not doing tours close now, Dan, sorry."

We wanted to cheque retired a ceremonial ailment from the Millbrae metropolis manager to the region lawyer that says Allen uses the constabulary presumption "as chamber facilities" since helium "now resides successful the Boise, Idaho area." In addition, Millbrae's Code of Ethics says, "No nationalist worker shall usage ... metropolis owned spot for idiosyncratic need, convenience oregon profit."

San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President David Canepa is calling for an autarkic investigation.

"If idiosyncratic is surviving retired of region oregon retired of state, they person to wage for their ain lodging, meaning San Mateo County is not a Holiday Inn," Canepa said. He has nary contented supplying beds for officers who enactment a nighttime displacement and whitethorn person tribunal the adjacent day, for example, but helium sees a distinction.

"We request to spot was idiosyncratic surviving successful determination permanently?" Canepa said. "These are payer dollars and truthful we request to marque definite that what's taking spot successful those facilities truly is for the bully of the taxpayer. That means radical aren't surviving there."

Outside the constabulary station, Noyes said, "This is simply a city-owned building. Millbrae officials archer maine Eamonn Allen didn't get support earlier installing those mattresses, helium didn't get a permit, and that helium changed the locks connected the building. That way, nationalist works and gathering attraction teams can't get entree and 1 metropolis authoritative tells maine that's 'an utmost wellness information risk'."

A occurrence inspector came to the constabulary presumption connected Tuesday of this week but couldn't entree that treble chamber due to the fact that it was locked with an "in use" sign. He entered the different chamber and noted a deficiency of fire-resistant walls oregon an exigency escape, what the main gathering authoritative calls "secondary egress".

"Secondary egress means having a window," Keyvan Irannejad said. "I'm definite you person it successful your bedrooms, successful your home, truthful successful the lawsuit of emergency, you tin exit done that model if the doorway is locked oregon blocked."

The inspector posted this "notice of correction" connected the constabulary presumption entranceway saying, "Please halt utilizing rooms for sleeping" and indicating Chief Allen has to get permits, modify construction, and walk inspection if helium wants sleeping quarters there. The inspector besides took a representation of a support successful the chamber with what appears to beryllium a fractional gallon of liquor.

That would beryllium a usurpation of some metropolis and region policy. The I-team besides recovered six sergeants successful the Sheriff's Office who unrecorded retired of authorities - successful Idaho, Nevada, Texas and Tennessee. Two of them enactment connected the weaponry squad wherever they made astir $600,000 successful wage and benefits past year. They're expected to respond to a weaponry menace wrong 1 hr -- nary mode that's happening, if they're successful Tennessee.