6 LAPD Officers Face Discipline in Off-Duty Incident

Six Los Angeles police officers, five of them from the Rampart station, have been assigned to home in action stemming from an off-duty incident unrelated to the ongoing corruption probe, authorities confirmed Friday.

The action stems from a trip to Laughlin, Nev., last year in which a female department employee was allegedly paid to bare her breasts for other officers, sources said.

Someone on the bus apparently was offended by the display and filed a complaint with Internal Affairs, police sources said.

Cmdr. David J. Kalish said the officers “have been assigned to home pending transfer to another assignment.”

Sources said the officers are expected to be ordered to disciplinary hearings and face demotions in pay grade.

One source said the officers are not being disciplined for their behavior on the trip, but because they were not truthful about it during the course of the department’s internal investigation.

The trip was an off-duty affair intended to raise funds for a law enforcement event, sources said.

Department officials stressed that the pending discipline has nothing to do with the LAPD’s investigation of corruption at the Rampart station, which already has led to 13 officers being relieved of duty, two officers being fired and two others resigning.

Police union officials declined comment Friday.