COLUMBUS – A two-decade veteran officer with the Columbus Division of Police is facing criminal charges.
The division announced Thursday that it had been informed that Connie Brant has been charged with nine counts of dereliction of duty, according to a division press release.
Brant has been with the Division for 24 years, the past nine years with the Accident Investigation Unit, but was relieved of duty in early October, division officials said.
The charges were the result of an internal investigation at the direction of Chief Elaine Bryant.
Now that criminal charges have been filed, police officials say the division’s Internal Affairs Bureau has begun an administrative investigation into Brant.
Based on the criminal charges, at the conclusion of that administrative investigation, division officials may recommend that Brant be fired by the city’s Public Safety Director.