(Cincinnati, OH) -- The head of the Cincinnati police union is coming under fire from civil rights groups.
A statement Thursday night from the NAACP, Black United Front and the AMOS Project ripped Fraternal Order of Police President Dan Hils, saying he bad-mouthed a black police supervisor and has worked to undermine the Collaborative Agreement.
The letter accused him of obstructing efforts to improve police relationships with black communities in Cincinnati when he led a vote to withdraw from participating in a refresh of the Collaborative Agreement.
The Collaborative Agreement is a 2002 court-mediated deal that outlines how Cincinnati police officers and the community should interact with one another.
In December 2017 the Sentinel Police Association, an organization comprising black Cincinnati police officers, cast a vote of no confidence in the Fraternal Order of Police in connection to the same incidents. In a statement they accuse Hils has "failed to equally represent African American officers within the Cincinnati Police Department in matters ranging from discipline to promotion."
Hils told WLWT-TV many of the specifics of the group's statement are false.