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Two Milwaukee police officers accused of failing to properly investigate a sexual assault and a robbery each have been suspended for 15 days, documents on file with the Fire and Police Commission show.

The patrol officers - Roman A. Martinez and Mathew J. Destree - did not call a supervisor or file a report about the sexual assault even though the victim was naked and they found a knife she said her attacker had used against her, according to the documents.

The victim later went to the hospital, where she was interviewed by detectives specially trained to investigate sexual assaults. The detectives reported Martinez and Destree to the department's internal affairs division after the interview, department spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said Tuesday.

The incident occurred July 25, about two weeks after Police Chief Edward A. Flynn acknowledged shortcomings in training for officers about how to handle sexual assault investigations.

Martinez and Destree are both 25 and joined the department in 2008, Schwartz said.

Both officers have appealed their suspensions. According to documents filed with the commission:

Martinez and Destree were sent to the 1500 block of S. Muskego Ave. to investigate a report that a man had stolen a purse from a woman. While they were trying to speak with her, three women in a car flagged them down. One was naked and said she had been sexually assaulted.

Destree later told investigators that he told the woman to put clothes on. The sexual assault victim told investigators that Destree didn't seem to care about her situation and that he didn't write her name in his memo book. She said she took the officers to the scene of the assault, where Destree found a knife the woman said her attacker had used against her.

She said Destree gave the knife to her and either he or Martinez told her to take it to the hospital with her.

The robbery victim, meanwhile, told internal affairs investigators that she had been injured but that the officers seemed ambivalent.

Martinez told the investigators the robbery victim was upset because he and Destree were splitting their attention between her and the sexual assault victim. Martinez said the robbery victim was uncooperative and he suspected she was intoxicated or mentally ill.

Destree said that despite a chaotic scene, he and Martinez did their best to investigate the robbery.

The sexual assault victim also was uncooperative, according to Destree. He and Martinez said that they called for another squad car after they were flagged down by the sexual assault victim but that no other officers were available.

Police documents state Martinez and Destree did not file reports about the robbery or the sexual assault, which is a violation of procedure. They also violated procedure by not notifying their supervisors about the situation, according to the documents.

Neither officer could be reached Tuesday.

Flynn's acknowledgment of shortcomings in the department's training for officers about how to handle sexual assault investigations came after charges against alleged serial rapist Gregory Tyson Below. He is charged with assaulting 10 different women from 2004 to 2009.

The department had never provided annual refresher courses in sexual assault investigation for street cops, he said. That training started for the first time Monday, Schwartz said.