K-9 Coordinator

You keep liking him

This guy does not know the meaning of being a cop. He will stab you in the back. He will drop a dime on you if he knew you did something wrong, even if it was a mistake. He is very sneaky.
This is why they call him Rat Boy/Cheese Boy. There is nothing good coming from him. Even his former K-9 Unit does not like him. How many times do you think he has screwed them. Just ask around, I don't know anyone who likes him.

Hey Sheriff
If you read this site, It's time to put the axe to use, and get rid of this waste of tax payer's money.

ACT NOW
SAVE SOME OF THE BUDGET MONEY THE COMMISSION WANTS YOU TO CUT!!

Worst person on the Department,can't call him a Deputy

Let me know when it happens.

Thanks,

The axe is being sharpened
Get ready Billy

Ok I think the axe is sharp enough.Can someone explain what is taking so long?

I heard that there are several IA's still going on.

Have to wait till they are completed.

It just makes him sweat a little longer :evil:

Has anyone heard anything?????

BROOKSVILLE --
The former K-9 supervisor said he preferred to spend more time on the streets chasing crooks.

Deputy Billy Martinez made it known he hated red tape.

That's what he told Sgt. Kathleen Reid, the internal affairs investigator for the Hernando County Sheriff's Office, during his interview.

"He advised that was one of his faults within the unit," Reid wrote in her report. "He was more concerned with finding the bad guy or a missing child, so he would put off his paperwork."

His supervisors said Martinez's penchant for cutting corners on his administrative duties is what cost him his corporal rank.

Additionally, Martinez no longer oversees the K-9 unit. He's since returned to street patrol by order of the sheriff. He also was suspended for 12 days without pay.

In the end, his bosses reprimanded him for his sloppy maintenance of time sheets and evidence logging and his failure to testify honestly about his mistakes.

Martinez had three sustained allegations — below standard record keeping, violation of the agency's code of conduct and untruthfulness.

"Your failure to properly recognize and execute this critical responsibility could have compromised the integrity of the unit and potentially put K-9-related drug cases in jeopardy," stated Col. Michael Maurer, the sheriff's office's second in command.

Maurer's other memo contained harsher rhetoric.

He stated Martinez's decision to substitute his subordinates' signatures on their time sheets was a "perilous practice" that violated policy.

Maurer thought Martinez's negligence while a supervisor could have easily "brought discredit to our agency as well as potential litigation."

He saved his strongest criticism for last. He blasted Martinez for his failure to speak truthfully about what he did during the initial bureau-level investigation.

"You should've provided a simple statement of admission and oversight for the exclusion of entries," Maurer wrote. "Your decision to depart from the truth and engage in a cascading series of misstatements is intolerable and totally unacceptable."

After one of his supervisors uncovered Martinez's time sheet snafu last spring, the wheels were set in motion to replace him with a new K-9 supervisor.

Sgt. Timothy Bammert, who had overseen the unit previously, took it over.

Bammert discovered other possible missteps by Martinez, which prompted the IA investigation, according to the sheriff's office.

Martinez was accused of shoddy recordkeeping with the K-9 drug locker records.

During his subsequent interview, Martinez told Reid he had thrown away some of the original pages from the log book that documented who removed narcotics from the locker and when. He replaced them with "newer and neater" pages and rewrote everything, according to the IA report.

"I asked what he had done with the original documents and he stated, 'probably threw them out I would imagine,'" Reid wrote. "I asked why he would throw away documents because they weren't neat and orderly and he said he didn't think they would be used for court."

At one point, he told Reid, "My bad," when she pressed him about his questionable methods to recordkeeping.

The narcotics stored in the lockers are used to train K-9s on how to locate hidden drugs.

Supervisors said no evidence was missing while Martinez supervised the K-9 unit. They pinpointed the problem to the recordkeeping.

"He stated he understands how important the documentation is and he had hoped he would have done a better job, but unfortunately, that was not what happened," Reid wrote in her report.

Martinez has worked with the sheriff's office for 19 years. He joined the K-9 unit in 1998 and was promoted to supervisor in 2006.

His dishonest statements, Maurer stated, came when he was asked by a supervisor about why he hadn't properly documented his dogs' mandatory training.

Martinez said he hadn't uploaded the information from his laptop to the agency's mainframe and he had contacted computer specialists from within the department to assist him.

His supervisor investigated the story and discovered none of the specialists had been contacted by Martinez, according to the report.