The Knoxville Police Department officer who made a controversial phone call to coach Butch Jones regarding former linebacker A.J. Johnson told Knoxville radio station WNML that he has been relieved of duties as a security officer at UT football games.

“They relieved me of my duties because of a two-minute phone call I made to Butch Jones about the A.J. Johnson investigation,’’ Sam Brown told the radio station.

Brown, who is retiring from KPD in January, made the call the same day in November 2014 that Johnson and Michael Williams were accused of rape.

Brown, who worked the sidelines for 19 years as a security officer, told the station that it was a standard courtesy call made to Volunteers coaches when an athlete is in trouble:

Brown said he has made such courtesy calls to four different head coaches over 19 years and that he was never told there was a policy against such actions. He estimated that he has made about 100 such calls.

Brown said he saw nothing wrong with alerting a coach, provided he didn’t get involved with the investigation.

A UT spokesperson told the station that was not the official protocol:

But a UT spokesperson said there is a policy in place. If an incident occurs off campus, the Knoxville Police Department is supposed to contact the UTPD, which then notifies the UT Student Life Coordinator and/or Title IX director and/or the Chief Financial Officer. Then the assistant athletic director in charge of discipline is notified; he then notifies the athletic director who notifies the head coach of the sport in which the athlete competes.

Johnson and Williams’ trials were put on hold in March.