The Denver Post: The Denver Sheriff Department is shifting some deputy disciplinary matters away from independent investigation and instead will handle them in-house, a move that narrows the scope of reforms city officials made more than six years ago.

Denver Department of Public Safety Executive Director Al Gardner issued a four-page directive Wednesday exempting at least 14 types of policy violations from default investigation by the department’s Public Integrity Division, a civilian unit created in 2019 to investigate internal affairs complaints and policy violations for the sheriff’s department.

The directive also empowers a team within the sheriff’s department to screen complaints from inmates and others to determine whether the complaints should be investigated by the Public Integrity Division.

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