CRESTVIEW - One of Crestview’s highest-ranking police officers, Maj. Ken Bundrick, is the subject of an internal investigation.
“Maj. Bundrick is under internal investigation. That is the only information I can give. Once an investigation is concluded, it will become a public record,” Police Chief Tony Taylor said Monday.
Taylor said it would violate state law to release any information regarding an internal police department investigation. He said whoever leaked news of the Bundrick investigation to media sources had committed a misdemeanor offense.
Bundrick is a 26-year veteran police officer who has for many years conducted internal investigations for the Crestview department.
In August 2013, Bundrick testified to his own negligence in processing a job application and background material turned in by Joseph Floyd.
Floyd, now serving a 12-year prison sentence for racketeering, sought and obtained employment with the police department in January 2007.
Asked why he didn’t object to then-Chief Brian Mitchell’s urging him not to investigate Floyd’s past, Bundrick said he had competed with Mitchell for the police chief’s job and “felt I was considered a problematic employee.”
“I have a family to feed and this is my only income,” he testified.
Bundrick was considered for the police chief’s position as early as 2003, when then-Chief Maxie Barrow retired.
He competed for the job with Mitchell in 2006 and was in the running again in 2012, when the city chose Tony Taylor to lead the police department.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Tom McLaughlin at 850-315-4435 or tmclaughlin@nwfdailynews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TomMnwfdn.