Trooper Burgos you are a disgrace!

Trooper Burgos you are a disgrace to the uniform you wear. The rest of you at FHP should take a collection and make a donation in Officer Bello's name. God bless Officer Bello's family and may he RIP.

Ticket a second torment for officerThe Florida Highway Patrol is reviewing an incident in which a Miami police lieutenant was ticketed while rushing to a hospital where his son lay mortally injured.
BY JOAN FLEISCHMAN

Miami police Lt. Armando Bello was in the Florida Keys when he got word that his son, a 27-year-old Miami-Dade police officer, was critically injured in an off-duty, one-car crash at 5:45 a.m. Saturday. Bello jumped into his car and was racing north on U.S. 1, headed to Jackson Memorial Hospital, when he got stopped for speeding by the Florida Highway Patrol.

Bello, 49, told Trooper Jose Burgos the circumstances. Burgos didn't believe him. So he wrote Bello a ticket -- for doing 91 mph in a 55-mph zone. That was at 7:11 a.m.

What Bello didn't know was that doctors at JMH's Ryder Trauma Center had just pronounced his son dead at 7:08 a.m. Officer Armando Bello Jr. was on his way home from a party for a fellow police officer when his silver Lexus hit a tree at Northwest 27th Avenue and 110th Street.

FHP Lt. Col. Rick Gregory said the brass are reviewing the traffic ticket situation. ''Our concern is the sensitivity and discretion issue,'' Gregory said.

Burgos, 26, a trooper for three years, lives in Homestead and patrols upper Monroe County on the day shift. He was driving to work in his marked black-and-yellow cruiser when a motorist flagged him down to report a ''reckless driver,'' Capt. Jaime Picanol said Tuesday.

Burgos saw Bello ''passing, changing lanes, at a very high rate of speed,'' Picanol said. The trooper clocked Bello's Mercedes with radar and pulled him over at mile marker 118. Bello said he was a policeman and that he had a gun in the car. ''`My son has been involved in a serious crash,'' he told Burgos, according to Picanol. ``He's been airlifted.''

Burgos, who had watched the TV morning news, ''didn't hear anything about it,'' Picanol said. ``He didn't give it much credibility, so he wrote him a ticket.''

Burgos felt terrible when he later learned that Bello was telling the truth and that his son had died.

Bello, a 26-year Miami Police Department veteran now assigned to the communications section, once worked motorcycle patrol, doing traffic and DUI enforcement.

Burgos is a solid, ''high activity'' trooper, Picanol said. And troopers ''get so many excuses, you have to determine which is real,'' Picanol added.

Said Lt. Col Gregory: ``It is hard to put a policy in place to describe common sense, but we want to make sure every trooper understands that they have discretion and there is a need for sensitivity.''

Burgos will likely void the ticket, Picanol said. ``He's going to take care of the citation to make sure Lt. Bello won't have to go to court.''

The junior Bello was a finalist for the Dade County Police Benevolent Association's Officer of the Year award in 2005 for rescuing a driver and four children from a burning car.

Services are at 10 a.m. today at St. Brendan Catholic Church in Westchester. Burial is at Woodlawn Park South, 11655 SW 117th Ave. In lieu of flowers, the Bello family requests donations to the Police Officer Assistance Trust, 1030 NW 111th Ave., Suite 232, Miami, FL 33172.

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. The pinnacle of scumbaggery. He wrote a police Lieutenant a citation. Never mind the circumstances!

One must maintain a certain resignation in order not to explode. Although there are exceptions, by and large, Florida Highway Patrol is not part of any brotherhood and never will be. They just do not understand the concept of loyalty and never will.

[Threefourths]

First, I would like to convey my sincerest sympathies to the Bello family for their loss.

Now as a new member of this site I would like to introduce myself and ask the moderator to contact me If I have offended him/her in any way.
I am a retired NYC Police Officer that read this story in the Miami Herald.
I am absolutely ashamed by what this Trooper did.
I posted a thread stating the same and it has been deleted because of profanity used.
For that I apologize!
I ask that you re-post my original thread which now reads Post deleted and I will gladly remove the profanity (which was *'ed out to begin with)

Quit now Burgos

[MOD 310]

Threefourths, no offense taken. I'm just trying to keep the replies from getting out of hand. Your comments are welcome.

[papdwannabe]

as a nyc police officer i have heard some bad stories about cops treating cops badly but this takes the cake. florida state patrol know has a black eye over this situation and its up to the cops that work with this loser to remedy the situation. if this pos was a cop in nyc for starters his locker would be heading uptown on the A train. and thats for starters.

My deceased dad (NYPD 49/71) upon inquiry of some of the many acts of stupidity I inflicted upon him and mom in my youth would casually ask, "about 30 seconds or so before you did what you did, what the %$^%& were you thinking about. My usual answer was "nothing". I ask respectfully of Trooper Burgos
what was crossing your mind at the moment at which the MOS/Lt identified himself to you? Is it true that you guys write marked units?

I am a retired NYPD police officer. I have always held the bond between fellow law enforcement departments to be a sacred thing. I have ALWAYS gone out of my way to insure that any interactions I have had with outside agencies left all parties involved feeling a little better about what each other does. I am in shock that this disgrace to not only his shield, but any shield thinks that this is the way that fellow LEO's should be treated. I am having a hard time putting into words(or at least edited, appropriate and non vulgar words) how I feel about this disgrace. Up north, as previously posted by a fellow NYPD officer this idiot's locker would be going for a train ride. In my old command it would have been used as a toilet first. It is a disgrace to the memory of every LEO who has made the ultimate sacrifice. PLEASE, someone from FHP respond to this and let us know that not only is this nonsense not accepted and not the norm, but will in some way be dealt with. I can only hope that this moron will find half the discomfort that he caused this other officer's family during thier worst and most dismal hour. Burgos you truly are a piece of garbage, any real police officer on this board is sickened by you and your actions. You disgust me more than words can say.

You know what... it is not just because of the fact that he was rushing to his dying child that he should not have been written up, it is SIMPLY BECAUSE HE IS ON THE JOB THAT HE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN UP! HOW DO YOU NOT BELIEVE A FELLOW OFFICER...I AM SURE HE CLEARLY HAD SOME VISIBLE SIGNS THAT SOMETHING SERIOUS WAS GOING ON... this trooper is a total fool, a disgrace, COPS DO NOT WRITE OTHER COPS... I've had a CIVILIAN tell me that their wife was in the hospital after a car accident in critical condition, I did not let him off with a warning... I LET HIM FOLLOW ME to the hospital... I could have cared less who tried to jam me up if they found out, a life is a life... if a person is not lying to you, and you can help them, they should.
AN OFFICER SHOULD NEVER BE WRITTEN UP

AN OFFICER WHO IS RUSHING TO A HOSPITAL should be given an escort!

amazing

I am a retired New York City Police Officer, and I felt sick to my
stomach when I read how trooper Burgos treated a fellow Law Enforcement Officer who was enroute to his dying son's side who was also a Police officer, and has the nerve to issue a citation to this officer.....I never in all my time on the job ever issued a citation to another member of law enforcement....as soon as they ID themselfs it was always have a nice day and god bless.........The rule in the NYPD is cops dont write cops
I thing the Florida Highway Patrol should take up this rule.. :roll: