Miami Police Department Fires Deputy Chief Ronald Papier, Commander Nerly Papier
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Miami Police Department has fired Deputy Chief Ronald Papier and his wife, Commander Nerly Papier.
According to a statement by police, the termination is in connection "to their involvement in a non-injury vehicular crash and the administrative handling of the crash."
The couple was relieved of duty, with pay, on April 23, 2021, pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation.
Ronald Paper has been deputy chief of police for more than three and a half years. He was interim police chief after Jorge Colina retired and was one of the department's top candidates to replace him.
Commander Nerly Papier, who was featured in a recent CBSMiami report during Women's History Month in March, began her career with the Miami Police Department as a civilian temp employee. She later became a secretary and then a police officer. Six years later, she was promoted to sergeant. Over the years she continued moving up in the ranks to lieutenant and later to her current rank as commander.
Ronald Papier returned to deputy chief duties after Art Acevedo from Houston was hired to be the city's top cop. During his swearing-in ceremony, Acevedo promised to rid the Miami PD of bad and undisciplined cops and deal with bad policing head on.