Former Boston police officer who secretly filmed a naked child was excluded from police work

The State Police Supervision Board forbade him last week to work in the forces of the order in Massachusetts to a former Boston police officer who declared himself guilty of secretly filming a naked child.

The officer, Joe Martínez, faced 15 positions later His arrest in March 2022including photography of the intimate areas of a child and the capture of images of a naked person without their knowledge. Subsequently, the prosecutors presented an additional position of indecent aggression and aggression to a child under 14, according to the records filed in the Superior Court of the Norfolk County.

Martínez, Boston police officer since 2008, declared himself guilty of the 16 positions in March last year. He was sentenced to between three and five years in state prison and boarding school at the Souza-Barnoowski Correctional Center, a maximum security installation in Lancaster.

In an online published last weekThe Training Commission and Paz Officers of Massachusetts said that it revoked Martínez for police work, permanently prohibiting working in a police department or in the Sheriff’s office in the state of the Bay.

Martínez’s conviction had not been reported above.

The Board was created through a 2020 police reform law to increase transparency and scrutiny of order forces in the midst of the national recognition of police misconduct caused by the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer of Minneapolis.

According to the new law, the police had to have a certification to work in Massachusetts. Martínez is the number 40 police officer who loses his license from the commission. He began to exercise his descertification authority in 2023.

The Board has withdrawn the certifications of the officers for a variety of misconduct. Many, although not all, faced criminal sentences, which demand their decrtification according to state law.

The first officer booked by the commission was accused of marching in the 2017 White Nationalist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia. Other officers lost their certifications for accusations of use of drugs at work o Falsification of police reports and records.

Martínez was accused of placing a camera in the shower, repeatedly filming the off guard, Boston’s balloon He informed after his arrest, citing prosecutors and a police report.

Martínez was put on administrative license when he was arrested, said Boston Police Department at that time.

A department spokesman said Friday that Martínez had been fired.

The Commission will submit Martínez’s name to a National Registry of Deal Police Agents. The measure could alert police departments across the country. to the history of the former officer if he tried to return to the forces of the order after leaving prison.

Martínez will be put on probation for three years after his release, during which he must use a GPS monitor, stay away from his victim, register as a sexual offender, complete treatment and advice, and seek approval for any job with his freedom officer conditional.