With a Coraopolis police officer's name regularly turning up in news accounts of the Ben Roethlisberger investigation, the borough wants to conduct its own review of the case file.

Its focus: the conduct of Officer Anthony J. Barravecchio, who was with the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback during the infamous bar tour in Georgia last month that ended in a rape allegation but no charges.

The borough has asked for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's file "to make sure that our police officer was acting appropriately," Coraopolis solicitor Richard F. Start said Friday.

He said elected officials had talked about the "alarming regularity" with which Officer Barravecchio's name was showing up in the newspaper.

"I'm concerned about it because it's a Coraopolis police officer, and I sign his checks," borough council President Robert Barone said.

Officer Barravecchio was one of several friends vacationing with Mr. Roethlisberger, who has an off-season home in Georgia near the college town of Milledgeville.

A 20-year-old college student accused the quarterback of raping her inside a nightclub bathroom there. No charges were filed, the case was closed, and Mr. Roethlisberger's lawyers denied that he did anything criminal.

Borough officials want to make sure there are no lingering problems with the actions of Mr. Barravecchio, described by two witnesses -- using varying descriptions that shifted over time -- as bringing the accuser to a hallway where Mr. Roethlisberger soon appeared.

Officer Barravecchio could not be reached for comment.

His attorney, Michael F. Santicola, said his client did nothing wrong and did not witness any misconduct by Mr. Roethlisberger.

Officer Barravecchio described himself to investigators as Mr. Roethlisberger's friend and "assistant" who receives payment in kind, such as trips, for his help.

Officer Barravecchio said during his police interview that Mr. Roethlisberger asked him to show a woman the bathroom's location. He said he did, and the woman sat on a barstool next to the bathroom. He described her as "giggling."

The officer said he left and did not see anyone else enter the area. Officer Barravecchio could not describe the woman and said he remembered nothing about her, the report said.

Mr. Start said he would not be reviewing the case file with any preconceived notion. Nevertheless, due to the publicity the situation has received, Mr. Start said the borough was duty-bound to its residents to review the report.

Mr. Start noted that the state's Borough Code has specific rules dealing with the suspension, removal or reduction in rank of police officers.

Any of those punishments can be meted out for six possible reasons, including "inefficiency, neglect, intemperance, immorality, disobedience of orders or conduct unbecoming an officer."

Mr. Santicola questioned the veracity of the statements by numerous women who acknowledged in interviews with Georgia authorities that they were drunk and some of them were underage.

He also cast doubt upon the accuracy of investigators who, at one point in the case file, identified Officer Barravecchio as a man with black, spiky hair.

Mr. Santicola said his client's hair is very short and that he wore a ball cap while out in Milledgeville on March 4-5.

"The GBI got it wrong. They got it wrong a lot of times," Mr. Santicola said.

Agents with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration already are poring over the hundreds of pages of witness statements to see if there are any issues that would affect Officer Barravecchio's work with the agency.

Officer Barravecchio is assigned to do drug interdiction at Pittsburgh International Airport and occasional undercover work under DEA auspices.

Another law enforcement friend of Mr. Roethlisberger's, state Trooper Edward J. Joyner, has already felt repercussions from his presence at the Milledgeville outing.

The state police this week rescinded his 2005 application to work as a driver and assistant to the quarterback, claiming that the trooper overstepped the bounds of his employment agreement and demeaned the department's image.

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