Major discipline · 2022[1]
Suspended 15 days- Rank as reported
- Officer
- Sustained charge(s)
- Failure to perform Duties
- Separated while IA pending
- not applicable (collected 2023 and later)
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Officer Raymond Smith was suspended for 15 days by the Middlesex County Sheriffs Office in 2022. On April 1, 2022, while working a hospital detail guarding an inmate, Smith allowed the inmate to escape his custody. He failed to check the inmate's shackles, position himself to prevent escape, immediately notify a supervisor, and fully report the incident in the hospital log. The inmate gained access to a cell phone that was used in furtherance of the attempted escape. The sustained charge was failure to perform duties.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On 04/01/2022, while Raymond Smith was working a hospital detail guarding an inmate, he allowed the inmate to escape his custody. Additionally, he failed to check the inmates shackles as required, properly position himself to prevent escape, failed to immediately notify a supervisor or call out the escape, failed to fully report the incident in the hospital log, and while under his watch, the inmate was able to gain access to her cell phone which was not reported to a supervisor. The phone was used in furtherance of the inmates attempted escape.