Barry Levinson
In early March 2015, Fullerton Police Corporal Paul Irish, a twenty plus year veteran, drug recognition expert with an unblemished record of service was terminated. What did he do that so upset FPD brass lead by Police Chief Danny Hughes that necessitated such severe action?
FPD’s ex chief Dan Hughes
Did he commit some heinous crime such as rape, murder or kidnapping? NO! Did he use excessive force against a member of the public? NO! Did he commit any other felony or even an alleged misdemeanor crime? NO! What got Corporal Paul Irish fired from the FPD?
He conducted an Ethics training course in early September 2014 without specifically telling his bosses that would be the topic of the training. In other words he basically got fired for teaching ethics to members of the FPD.
I could see how that topic would be taboo by a department run by the likes of one Danny Hughes. He even had the audacity to state in general terms that he was aware of past ethical breaches in the FPD. Only in the FPD or in the “Twilight Zone” could such an action take place. (Please remember that the Twilight Zone was fiction but the firing of Paul Irish was and still is reality.)
I guess real ethics and integrity teaching by a FPD officer could not and would not be tolerated by Danny Hughes.
Dan Hughes stated to a City Council member that he hates Barry Levinson and unsucessfully tried to frame Barry Levinson.
Any punishments short of dismissal were not severe enough for our former upstanding police chief. For Danny Hughes that great reformer of the FPD needed to send an internal message to all Fullerton Police Officers and staff that teaching ethics in the department and how the FPD has sometimes fallen short on that subject would result in swift termination.
The swiftness of the FPD action was startling. The very next day after the ethics training, Corporal Paul Irish was placed on administrative leave. Then four months later he received a letter from the FPD informing him that they intended to terminate his City employment and only a month after that was he indeed officially terminated from the FPD.
The Fullerton Police Department rarely acts so quickly in handing out such severe punishment. But above all else, it is apparent that the one thing Police Chief Danny Hughes can’t tolerate is ethics training and the suggestion that the FPD falls short in that area.
Ethics? … Christian ethics?
What is wrong with you Corporal Paul Irish? Why haven’t you got with the Public Relations Program that the newly reformed FPD under Police Chief Danny Hughes has no ethics problems and has absolutely no corruption? After all Acting Police Chief Dan Hughes proclaimed that to a local newspaper during an interview in January 2012.
Not even those responsible for the brutal death of Kelly Thomas were put on administrative leave as quickly as Corporal Paul Irish.
Clearly a RICO investigation by the FBI is warranted and there needs to be a takeover by the US Marshalls of our Fullerton Police Force in order to clean house and get our city police department back on the right course.
As far as the Paul Irish situation is concerned, an honest and fair city council would overrule that termination order and give Corporal Paul Irish, a twenty-year veteran his job back. For to do anything less would be a travesty of justice and just one more clear solid piece of evidence of how corrupt and dirty our FPD and our City of Fullerton still are to this very day!
#1 by C-3 on May 13, 2017 - 11:15 pm
Irish was 86’d for much more than that. He didn’t know yet what they didn’t want him to find out about. Chrome dome Hughes did not walk onto that position with Disney because he looks good with a mickey mouse pin on his lapelle. There is a vast network of which only the players can keep score and win. Irish was an outsider with a keen insight into the criminal mind. In the department, he was surrounded by them. He simply had to go. There are certain elements that led up to his termination that will never be publicly disclosed.