ORLANDO, Fla. — A now-retired Orlando Police Department officer has been charged with multiple felonies after the agency uncovered a pattern of him not showing up for shifts he claimed to work, with sources at the department also saying he’s not the only officer under investigation.
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Court records show Mathew Fleury was arrested last month after a months-long inquiry into his working habits after the Internal Affairs division flagged discrepancies on his reports.
Investigators said they discovered between July and September, Fleury clocked into and out of Extra-Dury shifts – security shifts the officers can sign up for to earn extra cash outside their normal hours – despite his equipment’s GPS trackers showing he was at his house in Clermont throughout many of the shifts.
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In particular, they flagged 68 shifts at two office parks in the International Drive area where Fleury racked up $12,352.90 in payments for work they say he never showed up for.
In all 68 of those cases, they wrote in their charging summary, Fleury also failed to turn his radio on and “call in” so the agency knew where he was. In some cases, they said, he turned his radio off during those hours.
The purpose of calling in is so the agency could help him in case of emergency, and so he could assist nearby officers facing dangerous situations.
They said on multiple occasions, Fleury “worked” an Extra-Duty shift during his regular work hours and he appeared to fake the activity logs he turned in for his Extra-Duty shifts, which he could get away with because he was one of the shift coordinators.
Investigators said the system did not flag Fleury’s odd GPS locations because as coordinator, he set the radius for acceptable clock-ins to 500 miles – further than the distance between Orlando and Montgomery, AL. Another coordinator told investigators the standard radius was a half mile for other sites.
It’s possible Fleury faked additional shifts, but the agency only retains GPS data on its equipment for a limited amount of time. July was the furthest investigators could go back to.
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Fleury did not respond to multiple attempts to contact him Thursday. The agency said he retired when confronted with the accusations, but what they uncovered would have been grounds for termination.
The agency’s statement did not address the claim other officers are being looked at, but said the investigation into the situation is ongoing.
However, OPD leaders said they have since implemented technology that will prevent this situation from happening again.
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“The Orlando Police Department is committed to holding all of its officers and employees accountable,” the statement said. “This system ensures officers are only paid when they are physically present at their assigned job location, thereby preventing similar incidents from occurring in the future.”
Fleury faces five years in prison for each count he faces. It’s not yet clear whether Fleury or his agency will be responsible for paying the owners of the office parks back for the fraudulently charged pay sheets.
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