Who Said that the Chief Doesn't Have a sense of Humor?

How's this for conduct unbecoming: One day, the chief got a hold of a bottle of vodka that was left at the station. He thought it would be really funny if he spiked the secretary's morning coffee. What wasn't very funny was the fact the secretary was, at that time, on medication. Chief genius also never thought to check to see if it really was vodka in the opened bottle. Laying around the police station, no one knew where it came from let alone what was contained in it. After a while, the secretary started to feel the affect of the alcohol, and that's when chief idiot came clean about the java additive.

Yeah, Its all fun and games 'til someone gets suspended, as he did.

What Kind of Hand is in this Cookie Jar ?

Many departments have contingency or "flower" funds for their officers. These funds serve to set aside monies used for holiday/Christmas parties, cookouts or flowers for deceased members of an employee's family. Officers opt to have money deducted from their paychecks for this very reason. The problem is that in one department, none of the employees have access to the fund. The chief is the sole caretaker of the officer's money and he alone decides how the money is spent while flatly refusing to gave any account of where the money is kept or how much is actually there!

Going Green for the Well-connected

One evening, officers answered a domestic call at an apartment complex. Upon arrival, they saw 1 (ONE) marijuana plant growing in a pot in a woman's living room. She was arrested and taken to the county jail charged with growing and cultivating a controlled substance. Within a week, an officer was informed about some marijuana growing outside a home on the other side of town. When the officer arrived at the house he saw, and subsequently confiscated, 26 (TWENTY-SIX) marijuana plants in various stages of growth. The plants were in plastic drinking cups and other containers set about the yard around the house. There were also larger plants growing inside the residence that could seen through the windows from the yard and street. Here's where it gets interesting... only 6 (SIX) plants made it to the crime lab for analysis and, on the chief's orders, the homeowner was not arrested for growing/cultivating but instead issued a citation for disorderly conduct. Did I mention that the homeowner/farmer was, at the time, an employee of the municipality? I guess it's all in who you know or who you are!

Conduct Unbecoming an Officer

An officer who was driving his department's K9 vehicle had a stuffed German shepherd on the passenger side of the car. He worked night-turn and came in contact with few, if any members of the public. He did not use the dog to scare, threaten or intimidate anyone. The toy dog just went along for the ride. When the chief got wind of the furry, inanimate passenger, he not only wrote the officer up for conduct unbecoming, he also reprimanded the officer's superviser for the same infraction. A good decision by the chief? Perhaps, but consider this: Another member of the same police department, (and ironically related to the chief himself), is well known for his sports betting and numbers activities. Conduct umbecoming and officer... isn't bookmaking in the PA Crimes Code?

"Do As I Say, Not As I Do"

An officer was recently reprimanded for briefly leaving the patrol area without prior permission. Meanwhile, the supervisor who initiated the disciplinary action has himself while on duty, gone grocery shopping, reported to work intoxicated, slept in his house while working night-turn, and played in numerous softball games while on-shift. "Do as I say but not as I do."

Above the Law... Again

It was just discovered when a local department attempted to have their vehicles inspected, the police car's registrations were either expired or not even registered at all! That's right folks, for over a year, officers were driving unregistered vehicles with the chief's favorite car, the unmarked, expired in December of 2008. I have to wonder how many tickets were written to the public for just these same offenses!?

OCD - P.D.

A police department south of Pittsburgh has a chief that demands everything be uniform and consistant. So much so that at one time he demanded that officers, when parking the police cars at the station, back the vehicles into their spaces, have the same distances between them with the all of the wheels turned in the same direction. Officers were threatened with a write-ups and even suspensions for non-compliance.