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The Portland Police Bureau's January summary report of police misconduct cases, filed on its website with no public notice, revealed a 2014 case in which a patrol officer was allowed to quietly resign in early 2015 after having had sex on duty multiple times at the home of a woman he'd met on a call and then lied about his encounters. (Maxine Bernstein|The Oregonian)

A 16-year Portland police veteran was allowed to quietly resign last year after he met a woman on a police call, had sex with her on and off duty and then lied about his behavior.

The officer was found to have lied to emergency dispatchers about his whereabouts, claiming he was taking a statement when he actually had driven to the woman's hotel room for sex in 2014, according to bureau reports made public for the first time.

George R. Holloway Jr., 54, resigned Jan. 6, 2015, according to bureau and state records, months before a police review panel unanimously recommended that he be fired.

The Police Review Board, made up of community representatives and police, also recommended that a "Do Not Rehire'' warning go into the officer's personnel file.

Portland police declined to identify the officer in response to a public records request, but information from the Police Bureau and the state Department of Public Safety Standards and Training indicated it was Holloway.

His name wasn't included in material released by the bureau summarizing the case.

"You are correct that there was no public release about the investigation,'' police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson said in an email Wednesday.

Holloway's case was reviewed "both criminally and internally," Simpson said. Police discussed the case with a Multnomah County deputy district attorney and determined a criminal prosecution "could not proceed based on the available information,'' he said.

Beyond discussions with a state prosecutor, the bureau never presented a formal, completed criminal investigation to the district attorney's office for review, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Don Rees.

The bureau may not have been able to prove that Holloway engaged in sex on duty with the woman during its criminal investigation, a source said.

The Portland Police Bureau's redacted summary of the misconduct involving a patrol officer who had sex with a woman on duty multiple times and lied about it. This is part of the bureau's Police Review Board report issued this month. (Portland Police Bureau)

The woman contacted police in 2014 and reported that an officer who met her on a police call about eight months earlier had visited her at her home multiple times while on and off duty, according to a bureau summary of the case.

The visits involved "intimate sexual acts,'' and the officer frequently gave her money, the summary said.

An internal police investigation found the woman's complaint credible and Holloway untruthful, according to a bureau summary. On one occasion, GPS from the officer's patrol car showed that the officer had driven to meet the woman at a hotel, though the officer had told dispatch that he was headed elsewhere to pick up a statement, the summary said.

A unanimous Police Review Board recommended last June that the bureau fire the officer. The board found that he exhibited a "repeated pattern'' of misconduct. It described the woman who made the complaint as a "vulnerable citizen'' but didn't explain what that meant.

The bureau found that the officer's payments to the woman didn't amount to prostitution, a source said.

After resigning, Holloway permanently surrendered his Oregon police certification in July, said Linsay Hale, director of the Professional Standards Division in the state's Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.

Holloway could not be reached for comment. Portland Officer Daryl Turner, president of the Portland Police Association that represents the rank-and-file officers, declined to comment on the case.

The Police Bureau distinguished Holloway's case from other police sex cases - including the 2007 conviction of former Officer Jason Faulk on misdemeanor official misconduct charges for having sex on two occasions with an autistic woman he had met on duty.

A criminal investigation is continuing into another Portland officer, accused of taking a woman's domestic assault complaint in July and then meeting her hours later at her hotel and coercing her into unwanted sexual contact.

Holloway's sex-on-duty case was one of 14 cases summarized in the bureau's January report on police misconduct. It covered Police Review Board examinations between November 2014 and last December.

The bureau posted the review board summaries on its website without any public notice. The summaries don't identify the date of the alleged misconduct, or the gender or name of the officers investigated. The summaries are posted twice a year.

Other unnamed officers resigned or retired as investigations were pending.

-- One officer resigned for not conducting a child abuse investigation properly.

-- A supervisor, who negligently fired a Taser stun gun in a police office in the presence of other officers and failed to report it to a commanding officer as required, retired.

Other officers faced lengthy suspensions without pay.

-- For example, one officer made false statements in a sworn affidavit in a child custody case with his ex-wife and was suspended for 120 hours without pay.

-- Another accepted overtime pay for hours not worked after he'd been released from a required court appearance. Four review board members recommended the officer be fired because of a history of past discipline, lack of remorse and the officer's inconsistent explanations for the unearned overtime. But then-Acting Chief Donna Henderson gave the officer a 120-hour suspension without pay instead, concluding there wasn't enough evidence the officer "intentionally misled'' the bureau and the city.

-- Another officer was suspended without pay for 120 days for failing to inform a supervisor that an informant used in a drug case was facing domestic violence and weapons charges, and for failing to properly search the informant's car, which was later found to have contained drugs. The review board members recommended the officer be prohibited from working with informants in the future.

The five who have votes on the Police Review board include one community member, a peer officer, an assistant chief who supervises the officer, the director of the Independent Police Review Division or a designee, and a commander or captain who supervises the officer.

-- Maxine Bernstein

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