For the second time in a year, New Orleans Police Officer Jeffrey Vappie has been removed from Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s executive security detail. The NOPD confirmed Wednesday that Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick administratively re-assigned Vappie pending the results of an internal investigation. The probe was sparked by photographs of Vappie sitting across from the mayor on the balcony of a French Quarter restaurant on the late afternoon of Sunday, May 7. The non-profit Metropolitan Crime Commission submitted a formal letter of complaint based on the pictures and the city has since decided to let an outside agency handle the sensitive probe. Vappie was given two letters of reprimand after last year’s internal investigation for his questionable hours and duties on the security detail.