Detroit Interim Police Chief Chester Logan

DETROIT, MI - Detroit police officers, acting on the orders of an ex-police chief, spied on the president of a commission that sets department policy and conducted searches for a new police chief, according to a report from the city's Office of Inspector General.

The report confirms Detroit Police Commissioner Jerome Warfield's

he was followed by unmarked cars with tinted windows. It alleges ex-Chief Chester Logan dedicated officers to spy on Warfield when he led the commission.

The report is the result of an 8-month investigation by the Inspector General's office sparked by Warfield's complaints last may. Investigators found that Logan ordered officers to tail Warfield on at least six occasions between January and April of 2013.

"The surveillance commenced based upon the order of former Interim Police Chief Chester Logan," according to the report. "Interim Chief Logan made the verbal order to Commander Brian Stair, the former commander in charge of Internal Affairs, in December 2012.

"Commander Stair expressed reservations about the requested action for reasons related to available manpower as well as established department policy."

Logan, a Vietnam Vet who joined the department in 1969, took the reigns of the Detroit Police Department in October of 2012 after

led to his predecessor ex-Chief Ralph Godbee Jr.'s retirement.

The Office of the Inspector General calls Logan's directives a "waste and abuse" of department resources.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who received a preliminary report in September, agreed with the Office of the Inspector General that "valuable police resources were wasted," but disagreed that it rose to abuse, according to the report.

The report doesn't identify Logan's suspected motive.

Ex-Detroit Police Commission President Jerome Warfield

"We don't want to speculate on motive at all." said Detroit Inspector General James W. Heath last week. "What's most important to us is the actions that were taken and to make sure they don't take place in the future."

At the time Logan ordered the surveillance, Warfield and the Commission had called for a nationwide chief search. Warfield said Logan was welcome to apply along with other candidates. Although the official search didn't commence until early 2013, the eventual selection, James Craig, admitted to being contacted in late 2012, prior to the surveillance of Warfield, about the job.

"We think a lot will come out of it because we hope, if Chief Craig agrees with the recommendations that we are making, that prevention of something like this in the future will be the most important," said Heath.

"It's for the Board of Police Commissioners to set policy for the police department and ... I'm sure they will want to weigh in ..."

It's "not uncommon" for the department to conduct non-police surveillance, such as in cases of residency, but it usually stems from a complaint originating in the Clerk's Office.

"What's unique about this situation is that no such complaint came through the Clerk's office," said Heath.

Although it's unclear if Logan was aware of the investigation, the Law Department already conducted an "extensive" investigation into Warfield's residency that concluded in February of 2011 and found he lived in the city.

Logan was interviewed during the Office of the Inspector General investigation but "

would not confirm the actions that he ordered," said Heath. "We were able to determine that through other interviews."

Warfield, after learning about the report findings from MLive Detroit, said some of the findings are "suspect" and a more thorough investigation is required.

"I don't believe it covers the full story of what happened," Warfield said Tuesday.

He said, for one, he saw a police officer with a badge speed off from his home when he returned from a trip to Home Depot days before he went public with his suspicions last may. That was more than a month after March 28, the last date investigators confirmed the department performed surveillance on him.

Warfield questions several aspects of the report.

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I just don't understand why it takes so long to complete the report, and I don't get why the chief of police doesn't think this is an abuse of power," he said. "Not only was it an abuse of power, it was intimidation tactics.

"I think it's interesting that this report didn't come out under the previous administration, but it came out after the previous administration left office."

Warfield resigned from the Board of Police Commissioners over a month ago when he accepted a position on the Department of Correction Parole Board.

Reached by phone, Logan declined comment.

Heath said the Detroit Police Department was "extremely cooperative" during the Logan investigation.

Godbee, Logan's predecessor, was likewise accused of using police resources for personal reasons when he dispatched officers to Farmington Hills in September of 2012, according to Angelica Robinson, a department subordinate who said she had an affair with the chief. Officers were dispatched to check on Robinson after she posted a picture of herself on Twitter with a department-issued gun in her mouth.