Major discipline · 2023[1]
Suspended 30 days- Rank as reported
- Officer
- Sustained charge(s)
- 4.1.4   Obedience to Laws and Rules Employees shall obey all laws, ordinances, rules, policies, and procedures, general orders and directives of the department. A violation shall constitute a class I offense. (SOP 3.01 Property Evidence Documentation) 4.6.1 . Failure to give suitable attention to the performance of duty. Examples include, but are not limited to: failure to take appropriate action on the occasion of a crime, disorder, or other or other act or condition deserving police attention; absence without leave; failure to report to duty at the time and place designated; unnecessary absence from the beat during a tour of duty; failure to perform duties or comply with the provisions prescribed in the police manual; failure to conform to the departments operating procedures. 4.1.2 Performance of Duty. All employees shall promptly perform their duties as required or directed by law, department rule, policy or directive, or by lawful order of a superior officer. All lawful duties required by a competent authority shall be performed as promptly as directed, notwithstanding the employee’s general assignment of duties and responsibilities. A violation shall constitute a class I offense.
- Other sanction
- Monetary fine or loss of pay
- Separated while IA pending
- not reported
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Officer Murillo, assigned as a School Resource Officer at F.W. Holbein Middle School, received a report on February 28, 2023 of sexual contact involving a 12-year-old student and failed to investigate that day or in the following months. She placed the documentation in her desk and did not report or preserve the evidence. The Department learned of the matter when the parents inquired on July 25, 2023. Mount Holly PD suspended Murillo for 30 days and imposed a monetary fine or loss of pay.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On February 28, 2023, while assigned as a School Resource Officer at F.W. Holbein Middle School, Officer Murillo received a report of a sexual contact Involving a 12-year old student from the juvenile victim and her parent, and failed to conduct an investigation of the incident on that day or in the months that followed. Officer Murillo placed the documentation of the incident in her desk and failed to report or preserve the evidence or to complete any investigation of the incident. The Department learned of the incident when the parents inquired about the status of the investigation on July 25, 2023. Evidence (Cell phone) from another case was found in her desk during this investigation and never was not secured properly.