NATION : N.Y. Police Spend Thousands on Dial-a-Porn, Dating Services
The nation’s largest police department was red-faced today over a $58,000 telephone bill that some of its members ran up making calls to dial-a-porn and party line dating services.
Police officials vowed to track down the uniformed and civilian employees who made the unauthorized calls discovered during a recent audit.
“The commanders will get that money back or they will take it out of their hides,” said Inspector Richard Mayronne, who added that the department’s Internal Affairs Division was investigating the abuses.
He said about $2,000 had already been collected.
The department’s director of communications, Michael Amarosa, said the calls were made during the first nine months of 1989 from about 2,700 unrestricted department telephones throughout the city to dial-a-porn lines, dating and party lines and companies that provide theater and special events listings around New York.
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