An NYPD detective who was demoted for calling out alleged corruption in the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau has been reinstated, and is now calling on Mayor Adams to probe the bureau.
Scott Munro Jr. claimed in a 2021 lawsuit that IAB head Joseph Reznick protected a crooked detective who drummed up bogus sting operations on colleagues so he could line his pockets with overtime.
Munro blew the whistle on the cop, who he claims went after Munro with false accusations of assault that resulted in Munro’s demotion from detective to police officer.
Munro, who has since gotten his job back, wants Adams to order an investigation of the bureau and the allegedly crooked cop, Lt. John Dandola.
In a letter to the mayor to be delivered on Monday, Munro’s attorney John Scola requested that “the NYPD formally investigate Lt. Dandola, hear the evidence accumulated by Munro and review each case in which Dandola investigated as a member of the Chief of Detective Investigation Unit to ensure there are no other members of the [Detectives’ Endowment Association] who may have had their careers senselessly ruined.”
Munro’s lawsuit in March 2021 against the IAB, focused on Dandola, then part of the IAB’s Integrity Testing Unit, known as Group 52 and tasked with conducting undercover tests on its officers.
Dandola would allegedly “manipulate” sting operations to line his pockets with overtime pay, the lawsuit said — but the ruse was uncovered in 2016 during a test-gone-wrong on a Detectives’...
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