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Manchester Police have been told not to arrest Muslims at prayer times during the holy month of Ramadan. The order is said to have angered a number of officers in the Greater Manchester force.
An internal email listing prayer times has been sent to officers who have been asked not to execute arrest warrants during prayer times for reasons of religious sensitivity.
'The month of Ramadan is an important time of the year for members of the Muslim community throughout the world,' said a spokesman for Greater Manchester Police who stressed the instruction applied only to warrants an... Read more
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KWWL - Waterloo,IA,USA
24 October 2006
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Fired Officers Fight to Get Jo
Their careers depend on truth and trust. Now, four eastern Iowa police officers are fighting for their integrity and their jobs. The Cedar Falls Police Department fired the four officers last month after investigating possible abuses of their $475 uniform allowance.
Officer Josh Atteberry's hearing wrapped up today after a day and a half of testimony, but the Cedar Falls Civil Service Commission has not made a decision on whether he will get his job back.
Attorneys gave their closing statements. Atteberry's attorney Tim Luce says, "Josh Atteberry was a good cop. He is a cop doing something that he always wanted to do."
Cedar Falls City Attorney Susan Staudt says, "At it's core, this case is about truthfullness and ethics and turning in receipts that mean what they say."
Staudt says Atteberry turned in reciepts for clothing he had no intention of keeping. "He turned in receipts in order to dupe the city into thinking that he spent his uniform allowance on the allowable purchases identified in this policy."
Luce says, the officer returned the suits and shirts in order to buy other clothing to use for work. He says, "The reason he did that is because he met the spirit of the policy, which was to use funds that he had received from the city to buy items that he used in his daily work. There has been absolutely no reason to disbelieve that is exactly what he did."
Luce argued that the uniform policy is flawed, and Atteberry should not lose his job because of it. He says, "How are you going to fire somebody on a policy that people testified here or in memos to the police department saying that needs to be changed."
Staudt says that's not relevant, and Atteberry's job as a police officer is to follow the letter of the law. "That's the burden they bear by being above and beyond what anybody else in society is bound to because if they're going to hold us accountable then they better be beyond that and be truthful."
The attorney for the Cedar Falls Civil Service Commission says we could know Atteberry's fate by tomorrow. The next hearing, for officer Holly Pohl, starts tomorrow morning 8 a.m. The other two hearings for Joel Oltrogge and Brad Brown will follow.
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