Dennis L. Turner: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
Dennis L. Turner, the Orlando police school resource officer who arrested a 6 and 8-year-old, has a history of run-ins with other police departments for alleged violence, and was he found to have used excessive force at least once while arresting a suspect, Heavy has learned.
Turner arrested two elementary school children Thursday and is now suspended and under investigation, police confirmed.
According to an Orlando Police Department tweet from 2018, Turner was supposed to have retired.
During a series of email exchanges with an Orlando Police spokesperson wherein Heavy tried to confirm Turner’s date of hire, believed to be in 1995 and unofficially confirmed by the OPD tweet, the officer said she did not have access to a computer to confirm his hire date.
But a report from 1998 shows an Orlando Police officer named Dennis L. Turner was arrested for the alleged beating of his 7-year-old son, records show. A cursory search of city records does not show another police officer by that name.
A sheriff in a neighboring county in 2003 was reported to have asked a state attorney’s office to investigate Turner after the officer was accused of telling the husband of a woman he was reported to be dating that he could “hurt him” and authorities “couldn’t do anything to me.”
Then, in 2016, the Orlando Police Department’s Citizen’s Police Review Board sustained, meaning they upheld, an internal police investigation that found he used excessive force during an arrest.
Records show that in 2015,
records show, he earned more than $100,000 a year in salary.