Officer Simon Drobik – Albuquerque Police Department

Officer Simon Drobik, a former APD spokesman, was found to have abused the overtime system by claiming extraordinarily high hours; an oversight investigation in 2019 determined he violated policy over 50 times in one year (billing the city for more than 24 hours in some days), and he abruptly retired in July 2020 amid an Internal Affairs probe into possible time card fraud and an impending state audit​:contentReference[oaicite:25]{index=25}​:contentReference[oaicite:26]{index=26}.

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