The South Beloit City Council voted to hire a private investigation firm out of Rockford to investigate allegations against newly appointed Police Chief Waylon Weber.
The council voted 5-0 Monday following an executive session meeting to hire Stewart Investigations to investigate allegations of department policy violations regarding an incident that took place in February of 2009 involving Weber when he was a patrol officer.
Council member Robert Stone requested the investigators be hired.Mayor Randy Kirichkow had filed a complaint against Weber with the Fire and Police Commission regarding the incident. The commission has set a hearing on the matter to be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at South Beloit City Hall. There has been no indication that the hearing will be affected by the outside investigation. It also was not announced what the cost of the investigation will be.
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