{"id":3647,"date":"2011-01-25T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T15:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2011-01-25T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T20:17:58","slug":"tupper-police-accused-of-sleeping-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/25\/tupper-police-accused-of-sleeping-on-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Tupper police accused of sleeping on the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/522625\/Chief-Fee--Officer-was-sleeping-on-the-job.html?nav=5008\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a> is reporting that Tupper Lake&#8217;s chief of police used a GPS tracking unit to find out what his late-shift police officers were doing at night.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One village police officer has been sleeping on the job, and others have been hanging out at home while on the taxpayers&#8217; dime.<\/p>\n<p>Village  police Chief Tom Fee told the village board at a special meeting Jan. 4  that he caught one of his officers sleeping on the clock in a police  vehicle, both on his own property and on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>He  also discovered that two other officers went home while on duty for  several hours, leaving police vehicles running in their driveways the  whole time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s still unclear what disciplinary action will follow.\u00a0 But Fee told told the Enterprise that he isn&#8217;t &#8220;going to destroy somebody over&#8221; the case.<\/p>\n<p>But this means a third of Tupper&#8217;s rank-and-file police force is accused of behaving negligently (I&#8217;m using a layman&#8217;s term, not a legal term) on the job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/522625\/Chief-Fee--Officer-was-sleeping-on-the-job.html?nav=5008\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adirondack Daily Enterprise is reporting that Tupper Lake&#8217;s chief of police used a GPS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}