[kellyhound]

It's a mistake that could have led to another death of a local police officer.

Just 5 days after a Cold Spring officer was killed with a gun late last year, a "clearly" not thorough search of an intoxicated man failed to find a loaded handgun, which the man then pulled out while inside a Metro Transit Police squad car and pointed it in the officers' direction before they could wrestle it away.

The gun was not fired, but two bullets were later found in the Rossi .38 special revolver.

The incident was captured by a squad car surveillance camera.

The intoxicated man, identified as Wesley Rogers, 21, pleaded guilty March 7 to carrying a pistol without a permit, a gross misdemeanor.

Metro Transit Police Chief John Harrington called the officers' failure to detect the weapon during their pat-down search of the man a "lapse" caused by a "rookie officer," identified as Jason Malland, who had been with Metro Transit police just two months at the time.

His partner, Ofc. Adam Marvin, had been with the department for three years.

"Clearly, it wasn't thorough because they missed something," Harrington said at police headquarters. "That's almost the definition of not thorough in this case."

The officers were not disciplined, Harrington said, because "in my judgment, this is a training issue...

And the way, in my mind, that you deal with mistakes is you correct the behavior by training the officers and reminding them of the importance of good searches."

After the incident, Chief Harrington ordered two hour training for all 118 Metro Transit officers - including himself - on how to properly do a pat-down and booking search.

[211kid]

yikes. almost a .

[IceCreamMan]

Brilliant! Fail to throughly search a suspect, put him in a seat behind you, then, when he pulls out a gun, call him stupid and rough him up a bit. The cop was lucky that the suspect was so fucked up that didn't even know where his dick was.

[LERK]

:face palm

[Dead&Bloated]

First off... Why is he not properly cuffed? After a shitty search the officers place him in the back? Strange.

[LiVe By NiGhT 976]

Transit police are cops that couldnt make it as reg police.

Fyi.