Somers Police Officer Suspended For Violating Personnel Rules: First Selectman

SOMERS, CT — A part-time police officer who had once been employed by the Connecticut State Police as the Somers resident state trooper recently served a three-day suspension without pay for violating the town's personnel rules, according to documents obtained by Patch under a Freedom of Information Act request.

Officer Michael Hevey, who had been a state trooper for nearly 20 years and became a part-time officer in Somers in 2021, received written notice of his suspension from First Selectman Tim Keeney on July 14.

In his letter, Keeney cited "timesheet discrepancies" and "misrepresentations of your hours worked" as factors in Hevey's suspension. Specifically, he said Hevey provided "false and misleading information" on timecards from June 25, 26 and 27.

"You altered the start and end shift times of your patrol without prior authorization and left patrol duty to tend to personal business without prior authorization, resulting in the loss of patrol duty presence for the Town," Keeney wrote.

During his suspension, which was served last week, Hevey was required to turn in his badge and firearm, was not eligible to accept extra duty assignments, and was prohibited from entering the Resident Trooper's office on Route 190 "except as a private citizen."