This was clearly a conflict of interest and SPFPA President David L. Hickey knew about this conflict of interest between SPFPA, and Patronus Systems since 2010 and did nothing about it. WHY -- That's over a decade of silence. --Members deserved protection.

Kemberly Fields, a former commissioned law officer and President of the Security, Police, Fire Union Local 300, was accused of stealing $23,000 from her union.

The former Secretary-Treasurer of Security Police Fire Professionals of America SPFPA Local 287 Milton Hilliard pleaded guilty today to theft from a labor organization in violation of his fiduciary responsibilities as a union officer.

On September 26, Laura Cloyd, former financial secretary of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America Local 112, pleaded guilty in the Campbell County, Kentucky Circuit Court to one count of felony theft and one count of misdemeanor theft from the Alexandria, Ky.-based union.  A month later, on October 25, she was sentenced to three years of diversion and ordered to pay $1,669 in restitution.  The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office

On August 23, Esper Alexander, former president of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America Local 1111, was sentenced in Wayne County (Michigan) District Court for the State of Michigan to six months of probation and three days of community service for larceny by conversion of funds from the Detroit union in a sum of at least $200 but less than $1,000. He had pleaded guilty in July. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-M

Michael Hough Former Security, Police, Fire Union Region 3 Director pleads guilty and is forced to resign his position as Region 3 Director. The case involved Mr. Hough stealing a former rival security unions entire membership list and other confidential information upon resigning his position as Vice President of UGSOA and turning this confidential information over to the Security, Police Fire Union to be used to raid UGSOA shops. Federal Agents Raided Hough’s home and caugh

On July 31, Dianne Drawdy, former financial secretary of Security, Police and Fire Professionals Local 576 in Baxley, Georgia, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia to embezzling union funds in the amount of $17,900. She had been charged in April following an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.

On February 15, Devon Madray, former president of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 119, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to five years of probation and ordered to pay $20,097 in restitution and a $100 special assessment, for embezzling funds from the Roseville, Mich. union.

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is investigating the theft of $160,0000 from the union pension funds for workers at California’s Disneyland from a local of the Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) union.

On November 18, Cullens, an MGM Grand Detroit employee since 2001, delivered a letter to her employer and the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 1111 union notifying them that she was resigning her union membership and revoking her union dues deduction authorization – a document used by union officials to collect dues from workers’ paychecks. She also sent the letters by certified mail to the union on November 21.