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PEABODY — A former police officer’s law enforcement certification has been permanently revoked following an investigation by the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission.
The commission, in a decision dated Dec. 18, found that Peabody police officer Gerald Fitzgerald Jr. included false information in a police report that led to a woman being arrested and wrongly charged with serious crimes in November 2023. Fitzgerald resigned from the department about a year later.
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