Post by WaTcHeR on Dec 28, 2006 13:03:27 GMT -5
One beer cost a Bossier sheriff's deputy his job.
12.28.2006 - The deputy was fired Friday after his supervisors said he broke the sheriff's policy by consuming alcohol while still wearing his uniform, the office said.
Officer David Russell Adams, 26, drank one beer Thursday evening at Shreve City sports bar 'N Cahoots, sheriff's spokesman Ed Baswell said. He had only been working as a deputy since Nov. 26.
An anonymous caller to the sheriff's dispatch desk notified authorities, Baswell said, and a supervisor then went to the bar and found the uniformed deputy with the drink.
"I hate that this has happened here at Christmas," Sheriff Larry Deen said, "but our standards at the Bossier sheriff's office are very, very high. Under the provisions of our policies and procedures, it was necessary to dismiss this deputy."
Michelle Madole, a bartender at 'N Cahoots, 1303 Shreveport-Barksdale Highway, was at the establishment Thursday night although she was not working. She said the only reason she noticed a sheriff's deputy was because of his garb. She said she normally would spot any law enforcement officer in a bar.
"He didn't come in flashing nothing, though," she said, referring to his badge. "He may have even been wearing a jacket over it."
Madole said law officers should not drink while wearing a uniform because it puts off a negative image.
"I could not see myself serving a drink to a deputy."
Apparently, no bartender served the deputy.
A friend ordered Adams a beer, Baswell said. "He mistakenly accepted that offer. He just made an error in judgment."
But other than a uniform, the deputy Madole saw was low key.
"One guy sitting at the bar didn't know he was a deputy until someone else told him later."
Drinking alcohol in uniform is not illegal but violates the Bossier sheriff's code of conduct.
"He wasn't drunk," Baswell said. "He wasn't misbehaving."
Adams, a resident of Stonewall, was still under the sheriff's office one-year probationary period. Bossier deputies are required to live in the parish, but the sheriff allows time for new hires to find a place to live, Baswell said. He was off duty and was not carrying a gun in the bar.
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12.28.2006 - The deputy was fired Friday after his supervisors said he broke the sheriff's policy by consuming alcohol while still wearing his uniform, the office said.
Officer David Russell Adams, 26, drank one beer Thursday evening at Shreve City sports bar 'N Cahoots, sheriff's spokesman Ed Baswell said. He had only been working as a deputy since Nov. 26.
An anonymous caller to the sheriff's dispatch desk notified authorities, Baswell said, and a supervisor then went to the bar and found the uniformed deputy with the drink.
"I hate that this has happened here at Christmas," Sheriff Larry Deen said, "but our standards at the Bossier sheriff's office are very, very high. Under the provisions of our policies and procedures, it was necessary to dismiss this deputy."
Michelle Madole, a bartender at 'N Cahoots, 1303 Shreveport-Barksdale Highway, was at the establishment Thursday night although she was not working. She said the only reason she noticed a sheriff's deputy was because of his garb. She said she normally would spot any law enforcement officer in a bar.
"He didn't come in flashing nothing, though," she said, referring to his badge. "He may have even been wearing a jacket over it."
Madole said law officers should not drink while wearing a uniform because it puts off a negative image.
"I could not see myself serving a drink to a deputy."
Apparently, no bartender served the deputy.
A friend ordered Adams a beer, Baswell said. "He mistakenly accepted that offer. He just made an error in judgment."
But other than a uniform, the deputy Madole saw was low key.
"One guy sitting at the bar didn't know he was a deputy until someone else told him later."
Drinking alcohol in uniform is not illegal but violates the Bossier sheriff's code of conduct.
"He wasn't drunk," Baswell said. "He wasn't misbehaving."
Adams, a resident of Stonewall, was still under the sheriff's office one-year probationary period. Bossier deputies are required to live in the parish, but the sheriff allows time for new hires to find a place to live, Baswell said. He was off duty and was not carrying a gun in the bar.
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