The Wichita police union on Tuesday condemned the letter threatening a lawsuit on behalf of former Chief Gordon Ramsay’s executive team.
The letter, which demands the resignation of City Manager Robert Layton and HR Director Chris Bezruki, as well as a $2.1 million payout, alleges that the Fraternal Order of Police lavished Bezruki with “gifts including expensive lunches” in exchange for favors.
“When WPD executive staff made decisions with which the FOP disagreed, the FOP leadership ran to Bezruki, and sometimes Layton, who would overturn those decisions,” the letter states.
The FOP response asserts that the letter “contains numerous false allegations and insinuations” about the union’s relationship with the city HR director, including the “insulting insinuation that the FOP was effective as a bargaining representative only because it bought off the City’s HR Manager with ‘expensive lunches.’”
“Nothing could be further from the truth,” the release states. “The truth is that FOP representatives had occasional lunch meetings (with a moderately priced menu) with the HR Manager in which the parties took turns paying for lunch.”
It says union representatives also met routinely over meals with Deputy Chiefs Jose Salcido and Chet Pinkston (a former FOP president), who along with former Deputy Chief Wanda Givens filed the legal demand letter with the city.
Salcido reported Bezruki to the FBI for allegedly accepting free dinners and gifts from the police union, the letter says.
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