Policewoman Goes To Jail For Letting Burglar Go Free

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Policewoman Goes To Jail Because She Couldn't Be Bothered To Arrest A Suspect



By Claire Gordon, Posted Aug 26th 2011 @ 1:07PM



Prison is an unfortunate place to spend a year, especially if you've dedicated your life to law enforcement. But that is the fate of Constable Michele Selby, who failed to detain a man who appeared to be breaking into a Chinese restaurant in Dunbartonshire, U.K., because she had other stuff to do.





At 5.30 a.m., Selby and her partner on-duty Mechelle Maley, found a man with a red-handled screwdriver, crowbar and wrench fiddling with the restaurant's door, The Daily Mail reports.



He claimed that he was fixing it. Selby wasn't convinced, and did a background check on the man, who had six previous convictions. Selby knew that he was trying to break-in, she told him, and if she didn't have another call to take he'd be on his way to jail. She just confiscated his tools instead....................more







I think the punishment was too harsh....termination would have suffice!



Did her partner do the right thing?

 

[bri]

I have mixed feelings about the situation. It didn't say how much later the partner reported it, if it was the same day or a week later. She should have taken some of the heat too. She could have made the decision to arrest the man at the time in spite of what the older officer chose to do. So in my mind she is guilty too to a lesser degree.

 

[JOVE23]

I don't know if catching someone attempting burglary and being an accessory to the selfsame crime are the same thing.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

ITS BECAUSE SHES BL...... FEMALE???