MATTER OF WILLIAMS v. SAFIR


265 A.D.2d 182 (1999)

696 N.Y.S.2d 139

In the Matter of ANDREW WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. HOWARD E. SAFIR et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided October 7, 1999.


We reject petitioner's argument that section 891 of McKinney's Unconsolidated Laws of New York (L 1940, ch 834), which provides that police officers can be terminated only for incompetence or misconduct shown after a hearing (unless convicted of a felony or oath-of-office crime [see generally, Matter of Foley v Bratton, 92 N.Y.2d 781]), applies to probationary as well as tenured police officers. While section 891 does not in terms...

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