At first glance,
this looks like a ride along
with a police officer,
canine handler Troy Oregon.
Denver Metro Protective
Services, but for 12 minutes
on YouTube, a security guard company
promotes an employee in Denver who
was actually fired twice as a cop.
Troy Morgan is now an armed security guard
with Denver Metro Protective Services.
The city issued him a license in early
2020 was here most problematic officer.
Ah yeah, I would probably say so a
couple years before his security
job working worked for this guy.
Your termination letter is 6 pages long.
Have you ever written one
that long before? I have not.
Jacob Freedom Berger used to
be the police chief in Fowler,
Colorado, east of Pueblo.
He fired Morgan less than
a year after he hired him.
Difficulty training,
difficulty adhering to policies
never really seemed to get in,
get along with their officers
or members of the community.
His termination
letter cited inappropriate behavior
with a waitress at a restaurant.
It also said Morgan had
problems with issuing citations,
keeping a prisoner secured and
following pursue policies.
Over the phone, Morgan told us nearly
all of those allegations aren't true.
He said the firing was in retaliation
because it happened a few days after Morgan
filed complaints against Freedom Burger.
The behaviors that he's exhibited
before, you know, I think I think
those are very concerning.
I personally would have some
major concerns with that.
It definitely wouldn't be my my
my choice after Freedom
Burger let him go.
The Springfield Police Department
picked him up and Morgan didn't
keep that job long. Either.
The department got a complaint
that Morgan threatened to assault
a man on a call and got into a
verbal altercation this week.
Morgan told us he lost his cool and
admitted to making a mistake.
There was an internal affairs
investigation and records showed
the police chief fired him for
intimidating or threatening behavior
and his relationship with the public.
Community a couple months later,
Morgan was issued a security
guard license in Denver.
Will the extra mile there when I can?
So how comfortable do you feel
that he's a security guard here?
Well, it's scrutiny that he's under in
Denver is more than any scrutiny he's
going to see anywhere else in Colorado,
and he passed that scrutiny.
Eric Escudero works for Denver's
Department of Excise and licenses.
City is one of very few in the
state that requires any type
of security guard license.
They even implemented
new requirements in 2018,
including additional training and a
tougher criminal background check,
which Morgan passed
when it comes to past employment history.
That's really the responsibility
of the company to make sure
that they're hiring people.
That's not going to put their
license at risk. Springfield
told us they had no documentation that
any security company contacted
the town or Police Department.
Morgan says his employment history.
Was on his resume for the security job.
Would you have hired this person?
I probably would not have hired
this person. Dan Corsentino
was in law enforcement for 25 years.
He now runs his own security
guard company in Pueblo
and even though he is guided
by policy and procedure,
the past behavior suggests he
doesn't follow it and security
companies are hurting for employees.
So it's an individual choice
of each security company,
says former police officers are
valuable to security guard companies.
Because they have additional training,
they're not the same job, though.
A police officer has police powers
to arrest a security operator.
A security guard has only citizen
arrest powers to detain member U 19,
Dash 03 Troy Morgan certification
year after the city issued
Morgan a security guard license.
The Colorado Peace Officer Standards
and Training Board voted to revoke
his police officer certification.
All in favor. Bye bye.
Springfield police accused him of lying,
which he denies.
Now he can't work in law enforcement
anywhere in Colorado, but
should be certified. Cops be allowed
to be security guards here in Denver
if they have no past criminal history,
then they ask they could they could
be allowed to do that in Denver if
they have not committed any violations
that would become a criminal problem
and the majority of our security
guards in Denver are of the highest
character and we see not a great deal
of violations of breaking security Guard
laws in the city and County of Denver.
Escudero says there is no
record of any violation against
Morgan security license.
Previous concerns though,
make Morgan's former
boss worried about his latest job.
Yeah, I mean I'm sure it's possible
that maybe he will find his his
niche and get along just fine,
but definitely they need to be
monitoring people like that.
People that have had issues in the past.
This is probably been the
best company that I work for.
Girl each day in this
company and I love my job.
Morgan says he didn't tell
his security guard company.
He's no longer allowed to be an officer
in Colorado because it hasn't come up.
Officers can have a hearing to keep
it if accused of Untruthfulness,
but Morgan says he decided not to
because his name had been dragged through
the mud and he was over being a cop.
I have reached out to Denver Metro
Protective Services several times over
the last two weeks to find out how
much they knew about his employment
history before they hired him,
but I still have not heard back.
That kind of becomes a crucial question here.
You know you've got somebody who comes
in and wants to be a security guard.
'cause I used to be a cop.
Why aren't you a cop anymore?
You banned from being a cop.
I mean like those seem like great questions.
We'd love to know from the
company where they said he
had brought this up in his resume.
He told them where he had worked
as a police officer before,
but we just wanted to know from this company.
Did you ever reach out to these previous
police department's to figure out why he's
no longer in law enforcement anymore,
but we're still trying to
find out that answer.
Yeah, we know these departments are strapped,
but and so we're seeing like vital questions.
Hopefully we can get those answers. Thank
you, thank you.