Secret recordings have sparked multiple investigations and led some officers to be removed from the department’s recruitment office.

The involved officers have been “assigned to home” without police powers, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said during a Tuesday Board of Police Commissioners meeting.

The accused officers have been removed from their posts with “no police powers,” the LAPD chief said. In light of a whistleblower’s complaint that alleged racism and discrimination by officers within the Los Angeles Police Department,