And so farewell, Boston Police Officer Kelly “False Memory” Dever, who first took a bullet for the team, and now takes a bullet to the head.

The official statement from the BPD brass came out Friday evening, after the deadlines for morning papers. If the news is embarrassing, they always release it on a Friday afternoon, for minimum public exposure.

If it’s really terrible news, they drop it after business hours on Friday night.

According to the BPD, False Memory Dever was officially separated from the job Sept. 1, three months to the day after her train-wreck testimony in Karen Read’s second murder trial.

“My entire job,” she told defense attorney Alan Jackson, in one of her rare outbursts of truth, “revolves around what I say on the witness stand right now. If I was to lie, I lose my

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