A former Scottsdale police detective, who admitted to falsifying her timesheet, surrendered her certification to a state law enforcement panel Wednesday.

The Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training Board accepted former Detective Brandi L. White's certification, which means she can no longer work as an officer in Arizona.

White, 27, began with the Scottsdale Police Department on Nov. 14, 2005, and resigned on June 22, 2009.

According to Scottsdale police internal affairs documents requested by The Arizona Republic, White wrote that she worked 64 hours from February to May 2009 when she was either on vacation or sick. Those hours resulted in a loss of $1,814.40, the report states.

Supervisors began their investigation after they received a timesheet for White during a two-week period in May where she requested on-call pay and compensatory time earned for staying an extra 30 minutes for a meeting, but did not document 24 hours of sick time.

At the time, White called the missing sick hours from her timesheet an "oversight."

Further investigation revealed that on three separate days, from February to April 2009, White requested vacation days, but wrote 30 hours as work days on her timesheet.

In addition, in February, White took three sick days, but only wrote down two on her timesheet.

When questioned, White told investigators that she realized in February 2009 that her vacation hours were going to be low and she would need more hours for planned vacations in May and June.

"I knew that in the future I would need the time off and that I couldn't just deplete the bank," White said, according to the records.

White said she had used the time off to care for her girlfriend's two children and couldn't financially afford to take the time off without pay. She told investigators, "I know what I did in February and it was wrong."

White is the second Scottsdale detective in the past month to voluntarily surrender certification to AZPOST.

The board on Jan. 20 accepted former Scottsdale police Detective Kenneth G. Varichak's certification after the 9-year police veteran admitted to internal investigators that he left an assignment early to help his wife with a surprise birthday party.