Policy board recommends firing 10 involved in response to Tamarac murders; BSO union calls decision ‘excessive’

NEAR FORT LAUDERDALE Fla WSVN Ten members of the Broward Sheriff s Office could soon lose their jobs following an internal affairs probe into officials response to a killing spree that rocked a Tamarac population News has learned According to the president of the Broward Deputy Sheriffs Association a initiative board within BSO has recommended the terminations of deputies and sergeants This recommendation trggers the process that will ulrimately decide whether or not these employees will be terminated The decision comes after investigators declared -year-old Nathan Gingles shot and killed his estranged wife her father and their neighbor along the block of Plum Bay Parkway back on Feb Prior to the massacre Gingles wife Mary Catherine Gingles made more than a dozen phone calls to BSO complaining about Nathan and fearing for her life In a news conference Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony reported his deputies and his department had fallen short Nathan a U S Army veteran faces multiple charges including kidnapping and murder The fallout since the situation has been ongoing with at least deputies disciplined in various way In a announcement the president of the Broward Deputy Sheriffs Association wrote These excessive punishments demonstrate an overreaction by the Sheriff where gaps in the agency s capabilities have been exposed along with plenty of systemic and institutional processes in need of better oversight and or revision Employees who have dedicated their lives to protecting this group throughout their police careers have been sacrificed as political cover for the failures of the systems and processes of the agency at large This is an overreaction for residents effect that does nothing to prevent the next tragedy The termination of numerous of these heroes does nothing to make the people of Broward County safer The report also says this disciplinary action is biased and it is scapegoating these deputies because of what happened Feb Please check back on WSVN com and News for more details on this advancing story