Romulus Police Chief Dickerson lawsuit.pdf - MLive.com

2:13-cv-10771-JAC-MKM Doc # 1 Filed 02/25/13 Pg 4 of 18 Pg ID 416. From July of 2011 to December of 2011, Plaintiff worked as a Sergeant inuniform on road patrol.17. In December of 2011, a new position was created by Defendant City of Romulusd/b/a the City of Romulus Police Department, which combined the duties of therecord bureau sergeant and the detective sergeant, who would work under theauthority of Defendant Captain Shelby.18. Based on his qualifications and exemplary performance, Plaintiff was selected forthis position which also included operation of the property/evidence room.19. In July of 2012, Plaintiff wrote a memo to the Defendants Shelby and Dickersoninforming them that he could not perform all of the duties assigned at a standardacceptable to Plaintiff. Plaintiff, therefore, asked that the position be reposted forother interested sergeants and, if no other sergeants applied or were interested inthe position, that Defendants Captain Shelby and Chief Dickerson considerreorganization by assigning some of Plaintiff’s duties to others.20. Defendant Dickerson informed Plaintiff that he thought Captain Shelby was goingto assist Plaintiff in the performance of his duties, which Shelby did not, and thatthe Chief never expected all of the responsibilities of the Records Bureau to behandled by Plaintiff alone.21. Defendant Dickerson asked Plaintiff to rescind the letter suggestingreorganization, which Plaintiff did, in exchange for Defendant Dickerson’spromise to assist Plaintiff with his duties.22. At this meeting, Defendant Dickerson told Plaintiff that he could return to roadpatrol if he wanted but that Dickerson preferred that Plaintiff stay in the Detective