CCRB ‘too green’ to judge Finest in blue

Most of the investigators who review civilian complaints against cops are inexperienced recent college grads in dire need of training — but a new taxpayer-funded unit meant to teach them has yet to be hired, according to sources and records.

The city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board got a half-million dollars to hire the new training unit in March 2015 after Executive Director Mina Malik warned the City Council that the “issue . . . needs immediate attention,” according to records.

“So last year, [the city Office of Management and Budget] agreed to give the agency $470,000 for a full year to hire three full-time staff,” said a former CCRB staffer who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“The fact that the agency hired nobody to do it is an abomination.”

The agency has between 60 and 80 investigators at any time, sources said.

Most are right out of college with undergraduate degrees and have no investigative experience or formal training in the law.

Despite that, they’re dropped into situations such as interviewing cops who have experienced union lawyers by their sides.

And “they don’t know our job or what we do,” a veteran cop griped.

Agency officials said in a state- ment that its investigators are currently instructed through the CCRB Training Academy, which “has been active since August 2015 and provides an ongoing fourweek-long training program for newly-hired investigators led by senior attorneys and managers, as well as guest speakers from outside entities.”

But the ex-worker said that the agency has not had ongoing instruction provided by “any full- time training staff for at least a decade.”

The board received funding in 2015 for the new three-person unit to provide ongoing drills and training, according to records.

The position of training director was posted in May 2015, and CCRB officials said the agency did fill the post, although they wouldn’t provide a name or hire date.

But “they didn’t hire anybody” for the new unit, the source said. “The reason we pitched it as an urgent need was that we needed to get people to do these weekly drills that would give the investigators a chance to practice.”

Detectives Endowment Association President Michael Palladino said the CCRB is “out of control.”

“CCRB investigators either lack the basic knowledge of the law or simply disregard it to fulfill their political agenda, which is so transparent that it is laughable. It’s time for a little training and some oversight of the CCRB,” Palladino said.

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