The Civil Service Commission voted unanimously in support of the Town of Dartmouth’s decision to terminate Sgt. Frank Condez from the Dartmouth Police Department.

The Commission ordered his termination on Oct. 15, the date of the decision.

The decision provides a lengthy timeline of Condez’s actions within the department, including his involvement with uploading unauthorized software onto the police department’s computer system as well as tampering with hard drives at the station.

While the Commission did not find proof that those actions could justify his termination, the Commission did conclude that Condez’s dismissal was justified due to his “wholly false accusations that Chief [Timothy] Lee was guilty of a felony, namely, criminal abuse of his only child.”

Condez started at the department as a patrol officer in 1998. In 2011, he became the Dartmouth Police Brotherhood’s president. Following an investigation into his missing firearm, Condez has been on paid administrative leave since Oct. 1, 2013.

In June 2014, Condez accused Lee of child exploitation via a letter to the Select Board and Town Administrator David Cressman.

Condez had previously repaired Lee’s wife’s laptop and obtained family photos during that process. Condez used photos of Lee’s son to accuse Lee of child exploitation. An investigation by the Bristol County District Attorney last year found the claims to be entirely baseless.

The Commission concluded that Condez displayed a lapse of judgment in this matter and was compelled to do so by “retaliatory behavior motived by an unfounded personal animus against Chief Lee and others, all of which is utterly intolerable in a police officer.”

“His lack of sensitivity to the harm this choice of action could cause to an innocent child, let alone to Chief Lee and his wife, is astonishing,” Commissioner Paul Stein wrote in the decision.

The Civil Service Commission's decision can be viewed here.