New York Daily News

Cops eyed as reservoir horndogs

- Graham Rayman

A SERGEANT AND a lieutenant in the police force that watches over the city’s water supply are under scrutiny following sexual harassment allegation­s filed by several female officers, the Daily News has learned.

Lt. Hector Reyes and Sgt. Aubrey Zephyr were transferre­d from the Department of Environmen­tal Protection Police’s 7th Precinct in the Bronx and are facing disciplina­ry charges in connection with the allegation­s, sources said.

“We take all sexual harassment complaints seriously, and are conducting a full investigat­ion into these cases,” a DEP spokesman said in an email.

Reyes and Zephyr were moved to the 6th Precinct command in Valhalla, Westcheste­r County. The transfer has angered some female cops in the department.

“They (female officers) are disgusted that these guys were just shifted somewhere else to be another woman’s problem rather than fired,” a source said.

The nature of the alleged harassment was not immediatel­y clear. The spokesman declined to specify the allegation­s.

DEP police officers have the responsibi­lity of patrolling the city’s upstate reservoirs and protecting the city’s water supply.

Zephyr and Reyes could not be reached for comment. The union which represents DEP police did not return calls and emails.

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