A police officer at one of the largest departments in South Jersey says his chief promised him a promotion if the chief could sleep with the man’s wife and underage daughter.

The Vineland police officer, who has been with the department for more than a decade, reported the sexual harassment and his fear of retaliation to the city’s solicitor, who vowed to launch an investigation into the claims against Chief Rudy Beu, who oversees a department of more than 150 employees. But the officer said nothing has been done by the city or department in the two years since he filed his complaint.

The chief, however, said the prosecutor’s office was made aware of the cop’s complaint, which he claims is in retaliation by the officer.

“Although I am not at liberty to make any specific comments, I can tell you that there are two sides to every story,” Beu said. “This is a retaliatory action taken against myself and certain command staff members for reasons I cannot discuss at this time.”

The officer, whose name is being withheld by NJ Advance Media due to his fear of retaliation, reported the allegations to solicitor Richard Tonetta in September 2017, five months after the first incident, according to emails obtained by NJ Advance Media.

The officer said Beu made sexual comments about his wife and daughter on multiple occasions. The first allegedly happened on April 7, 2017 during a Philadelphia Phillies game. The officer said he and his wife were at McFadden’s Sports Bar with friends when the chief, who also happened to be at the bar, told him he would promote him if he could leave with her. He claims the chief and another high-ranking officer asked his wife what assets the cop had to help him be promoted and pointed up and down her body.

“She felt very uncomfortable, and that is when she walked away,” the officer told NJ Advance Media.

The officer claims that Beu made similar comments a few days later. Beu allegedly told the cop that he would promote him, skipping another officer in line for the position. Then again, in August, the officer approached the chief and told him he didn’t think it was fair to promise promotions when there were no open positions.

“I was about to leave, and he said, ‘Well if I could have your wife,” the officer said. “As I go out the door, he says ‘How about your daughter?’ and he starts laughing.”

The officer said his son, a teenager, and daughter, who was under 13, were sitting in his truck outside the department at the time, and the chief followed him and yelled to the children that he would be promoting their father, the cop claims.

A few weeks later, on the advice of the union, Vineland PBA Local 266, the officer met with the city solicitor Tonetta to document the complaints. He claims Tonetta called the chief “unprofessional.”

“(Tonetta) said the chief was up here the other day making rude comments, sexual comments about your wife and about promotions and we had to tell him to knock it the f--- off," the officer said.

Vineland PBA Local 266 President Craig Scarpa believes the officer handled the situation the right way by going to the city about the alleged incident. Scarpa also said the officer’s accusations are credible, and that the comments were out of line.

“(The comments) were absolutely unprofessional and if it happened the way officer said it happened, it is illegal,” Scarpa said. “I have no reason to believe that it did not happen that way because I have seen and witnessed Mr. Beu be untruthful too many times.”

In the emails, Tonetta said a Conscientious Employee Protection Act investigator was assigned to look into the complaints, however the officer said nothing came of it.

Tonetta said this week he could not comment on the specific allegations, and that any emails sent to any employee dealing with personnel matters are confidential. The solicitor did say the city would have looked into any claim, regardless of whether it is a whistleblower case or a harassment case.

“Our ordinance requires any time any employee makes any kind of complaint about an issue in the workforce, we are under our ordinance required to look into the issue,” Tonetta said. “We would be responsible to do an investigation.”

Beu told NJ Advance Media this week that he notified the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office when he was made aware of the officer’s allegations. However, he declined to comment further or answer questions about how he was made aware or his involvement.

“The second that I was made aware of this, I retrieved a copy of that unfiled document and sent it immediately to the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office and demanded that we all be investigated, myself included,” Beu said.

Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae declined to comment about the matter. Vineland Mayor Anthony Fanucci said he could not comment on anything related to personnel.

Chris Franklin can be reached at cfranklin@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @cfranklinnews or on Facebook. Have a tip? Tell us. nj.com/tips.

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