12-29-2007, 04:02 AM
Properly is a good officer?????????
Same crap!!!! Different depatment!!!!
LARGO - Two employees of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office have been disciplined for violating the agency's anti-adultery policy. It is the first punishment of its kind since Pinellas Sheriff Jim Coats instituted the unique prohibition two years ago.
Radio operator Heather Clouser received a written reprimand, and Deputy John Bradshaw was suspended for three days after the two were found to have had an intimate relationship with one another, even though both are married to other people, according to sheriff's officials and documents released today.
In addition to committing adultery, Bradshaw used his agency vehicle to stop by someone's house for something other than a quick, personal errand either to or from work, the documents say. Bradshaw also made the stop without running it by his supervisor.
It was not stated whose home it was where Bradshaw stopped.
Bradshaw had been suspended for four days in August after his supervisors concluded he had run a red light during a chase and crashed into another vehicle, injuring a woman.
In October 2005, Coats issued an order prohibiting married employees from engaging in intimate relationships with single employees and vice versa. There is an exemption for employees who are separated and residing apart from their spouses or who have filed for divorce.
It is the first policy of its kind in the Tampa Bay area. Customarily, law enforcement agencies look askance only at paramours supervising each other or working in the same squad. Whether either or both are married to someone else generally doesn't come up.
With a supervisor in charge of a lover, there is the fear of preferential treatment. And if two employees who are lovers are in a combat situation where they are taking fire and returning it, it's natural for spouses to be more concerned with each other's safety than in doing their jobs, experts say.
Policies or philosophies at most Bay area law enforcement agencies are designed to avoid the supervisor-subordinate or same-squad scenarios.
That's true at the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, the Tampa Police Department, the St. Petersburg Police Department and the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.
Coats' policy goes further. It prohibits adultery among employees regardless of where they work or whether they have contact with each other on the job.
The punishment for violating the policy ranges from a reprimand to a three-day suspension, barring any previous disciplinary history.
Reporter Stephen Thompson can be reached at (727) 451-2336 or spthompson@tampatrib.com.
Same crap!!!! Different depatment!!!!
LARGO - Two employees of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office have been disciplined for violating the agency's anti-adultery policy. It is the first punishment of its kind since Pinellas Sheriff Jim Coats instituted the unique prohibition two years ago.
Radio operator Heather Clouser received a written reprimand, and Deputy John Bradshaw was suspended for three days after the two were found to have had an intimate relationship with one another, even though both are married to other people, according to sheriff's officials and documents released today.
In addition to committing adultery, Bradshaw used his agency vehicle to stop by someone's house for something other than a quick, personal errand either to or from work, the documents say. Bradshaw also made the stop without running it by his supervisor.
It was not stated whose home it was where Bradshaw stopped.
Bradshaw had been suspended for four days in August after his supervisors concluded he had run a red light during a chase and crashed into another vehicle, injuring a woman.
In October 2005, Coats issued an order prohibiting married employees from engaging in intimate relationships with single employees and vice versa. There is an exemption for employees who are separated and residing apart from their spouses or who have filed for divorce.
It is the first policy of its kind in the Tampa Bay area. Customarily, law enforcement agencies look askance only at paramours supervising each other or working in the same squad. Whether either or both are married to someone else generally doesn't come up.
With a supervisor in charge of a lover, there is the fear of preferential treatment. And if two employees who are lovers are in a combat situation where they are taking fire and returning it, it's natural for spouses to be more concerned with each other's safety than in doing their jobs, experts say.
Policies or philosophies at most Bay area law enforcement agencies are designed to avoid the supervisor-subordinate or same-squad scenarios.
That's true at the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, the Tampa Police Department, the St. Petersburg Police Department and the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.
Coats' policy goes further. It prohibits adultery among employees regardless of where they work or whether they have contact with each other on the job.
The punishment for violating the policy ranges from a reprimand to a three-day suspension, barring any previous disciplinary history.
Reporter Stephen Thompson can be reached at (727) 451-2336 or spthompson@tampatrib.com.