Stoughton officer resigns after meeting with stripper

Stoughton patrolman has resigned from the department after internal affairs investigations found that he left his patrol to meet a stripper billed as "the world's smallest porn star" and that he modified his service pistol by adding a laser-sighting device, the police chief said today.

Officer Richard P. Bennett submitted a one-paragraph resignation letter on June 30 and promptly left the department, said Chief Paul J. Shastany, who became chief on April 5 of a force that has been battered for nearly a decade by scandals and corruption charges.

Shastany, who had worked in the Framingham and Natick police departments for 34 years and had vowed to restore Stoughton's reputation, said he was proud of his officers, not embarrassed. Bennett's colleagues, he said, reported the officer's misdeeds to the department, prompting two separate internal affairs investigations

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