NOPD officer punished for wearing the wrong uniform(15 minutes before retirement)

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Source: The Times-Picayune

With minutes left in the last shift of his 35-year New Orleans police career, Sgt. Bobby Guidry received a call from a supervisor telling him he had been suspended for wearing the wrong uniform shirt, the veteran officer said.

The Police Department confirmed the censure Tuesday, though it quibbled with the term "suspended." Rather, Guidry is "under investigation for wearing the wrong uniform," said Police Department spokesman Bob Young.

Instead of the standard-issue all-black uniform, Guidry, a veteran officer in the city's Uptown 2nd District, chose the powder-blue uniform shirt that he wore to work for more than three decades.

He viewed it as a simple statement, not an affront to rules or department leadership.

"Eighteen people died in the line of duty in that powder-blue shirt while I was with the department," Guidry said. "I went to each of those funerals. I wore that shirt on a Saturday, on my last day, out of respect for them."



Read more: http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/punished_nopd_officer_kept_his.html

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I nominate these supervisors for a worst person honor. Idiots! Why don't you clean up the corruption in your department? You're not known as an exemplary police agency!