A Vicksburg Police officer was handed a suspension Friday by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, the fourth member of the department in as many days to be disciplined by the board.

No one from the department, including the officer, appeared before the board during its closed-door decision to suspend following its regular meeting. The name of the officer was being withheld until he or she is given notice, the city clerk’s office said.

Mayor Laurence Leyens said the suspension was for &#8220conduct unbecoming of an officer,” and was pending a termination.

On Thursday, Lt. Linda Hearn and Sgt. Virgil Woodall, both of whom work in the department’s crime-scene division, were handed a combined 35-day suspension after going before the board in a closed session. That came two days after the board voted 2-1 in a closed session following its regular meeting Tuesday to fire Sgt. Adarryll Dent.

The nature of the offenses that led to discipline was not revealed and will become public only if appealed to the city’s Civil Service Commission.

Hearn started working for the department in about 1978, and Woodall began in May 1990. Dent had been with the department since July 1995.

None of the officers would comment on the discipline Thursday. Chief Tommy Moffett has said he will not talk about the incidents unless the officers do.

Leyens said after the closed session Friday the recent spate of discipline was a result of &#8220rising standards” for the department.

&#8220We’re going to be putting all officers through a protocol class shortly,” he said. &#8220We need to expect the very best – period.”

Leyens said he was directing his comments at North Ward Alderman Michael Mayfield, who cast the lone dissenting vote against firing Dent on Tuesday, saying he preferred a suspension to termination. He also voted against the majority’s decision in July to fire patrolmen Anthony Lane and Bobby Jones, accused of having sex with the same 17-year-old girl in separate incidents in 2004.

Mayfield said Friday he did not believe the string of cases were indicative of a larger problem in the department.

&#8220Some of them are cases that had been built over time. It’s kind of stunning these cases would come one after another,” Mayfield said.&#8220I don’t personally see where you have a whole bunch of policemen running wild…it’s just that a lot of these cases are coming to the table.”

The board also terminated two employees of the Sanitation Department, whose names were not released.

In other business, the board: