A police officer has been given the green light to take his force to an employment tribunal for discrimination after he was ordered not to bring his dog to work.No Reader, not his police dog.
Detective Sergeant Mathew Parker told bosses he needed his ‘psychiatric assistance’ pet Koda with him to help with his autism and other mental conditions.Which in any sane world you'd imagine would be a bit of a barrier to being employed as a police officer in the first place. But we are well through the looking glass now. And this is the Hampshire Police farce, after all...
But when he brought the animal in without permission, he was sent away by a detective inspector who told him to come back without the animal, an employment tribunal heard.DS Parker sued Hampshire Police for disability discrimination, claiming that three other staff members had been allowed to bring assistance dogs to work.
Good grief, it's like a uniformed insane asylum...
The tribunal held in Southampton, Hampshire, heard that DS Parker has worked for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary since 2004.The experienced officer suffers from autism, ADHD, PTSD, depression and anxiety, the hearing was told. At the time he made his claim he worked in the force’s digital investigations team.
Was he mad before he started work, or did it send him mad?
H/T: BettyBoo via Twitter
6 comments:
In a sane world, this officer would have been retired on medical grounds, but then, when was the last time this country was in a sane world?
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No wonder the public at large has lost all confidence in the police service.
It's clear that the country is turning into poop, for various reasons, but I honestly never imagined reading that we have police officers who need emotional support animals
Considering he works in digital crimes or whatever, he probably spends his day at a desk scrolling through twitter, rather than having to go out in the streets and deal with mean people
That's no excuse though, the social media police are the worst kind, even lower than traffic cops. I hope he gets his arse handed to him, but we all know the only thing he'll be handed by a mordern tribunal, is a briefcase full of taxpayers cash
I can’t help thinking of Terry Pratchett’s ‘Feet of Clay’ and the vampire who repeatedly complains to the City Watch when he is ‘killed’ while working in jobs handling garlic, holy water and sharpened pencils.
Polis only retire on medical grounds when there is an investigation coming up into some serious misdemeanor.
"In a sane world, this officer would have been retired on medical grounds..."
Spot on!
"No wonder the public at large has lost all confidence in the police service."
But do they care about that any more?
"...but I honestly never imagined reading that we have police officers who need emotional support animals"
We live in that old Chinese curse.
"I can’t help thinking of Terry Pratchett’s ‘Feet of Clay’ ..."
God, he's SO missed...
"Polis only retire on medical grounds when there is an investigation coming up into some serious misdemeanor."
And they were supposed to have stopped that happening too.
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