Deadly Waters by T. Alan Codder

Author:T. Alan Codder [Codder, T. Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

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Sean was returning from his meeting with Kevin when his phone rang. He was only five minutes from the station, so he didn’t bother to answer. He pulled into the parking lot and switched the cruiser off before pulling his phone from his pocket. He glanced at the missed call and sighed as he pressed the button to return the call.

“You wanted to speak to me?”

“Sean, I just got off the phone with Danny Brady. He’s threatening to sue the city,” Rudy said.

Even through the tiny speaker of his phone, Sean could hear the stress in the mayor’s voice.

“On what grounds?”

“According to city policy, any disputes over pay are to be resolved by the Human Resources Director.”

“Okay, so?”

“You didn’t give him that chance.”

Sean sucked on his teeth a moment. “Are you kidding me?”

“Sean, this is serious business.”

“What do you suggest I do?”

“Put him on paid administrative leave.”

“I see. Doing what?”

“I don’t know! Find something for him to do!”

“So anytime an officer doesn’t want to work the three to eleven shift, or the eleven to seven shift, all they have to do is take a quick nap, and they’re on days for a couple of weeks with some busy work. Is that what your telling me?”

“No! I’m not saying that at all!”

“What are you saying then?”

“What I’m saying is, put Danny on administrative leave until we can sort this out.”

“I have another suggestion. Why don’t you have the HR Director rule on his complaint? This is pretty cut and dried in my opinion. If she says I can’t suspend him the way I did, then I’ll find out what I have to do to get him suspended.”

“It’s not that simple. According to policy, that should have been done before you suspended him. Sean, I don’t see—”

“What I don’t see, mayor, is why you’re not willing to do what you know is right,” Sean replied firmly, cutting Rudy off. “Let him sue. I have photos of him sleeping in his car. We’ll see how well he likes it when that comes out in court.”

“He said he wasn’t asleep and he’d just closed his eyes for a minute.”

“Funny. Didn’t he tell you he was on cold medicine? That’s what he told me. And it was for a hell of a lot longer than a minute.”

“How can you be sure?” Rudy asked.

“Because I have two photos of him taken twenty minutes apart. He hadn’t moved.”

Rudy was quiet for a moment. “How do you know they were taken twenty minutes apart?”

“Time stamp on the photo.”

“Can’t that be faked, or changed?”

“It could be. The thing is, mayor, the shadows moved. It may not have been twenty minutes, but it wasn’t only one or two, either. Why are you letting Officer Brady threaten you like this?”

“I’m just trying to find a compromise everyone can live with.”

“No compromise, not on this,” Sean said. “Officer Brady was caught sleeping in his patrol car, and that undermines the trust people have in my department. Without trust, and respect, our jobs become much more difficult.

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