COOPING IN COP CAR ON EXTRA JOB A NO NO

If you’re gonna coop on the job in a cop car, just make sure there’s no one nearby that can videotape you. In this case, the guy who videotaped the cooping cop got busted the next day for possession of heroin. Just a coincidence, of course. ….. Yeah, right.

BELLEVILLE POLICE OFFICER SUSPENDED FOR SLEEPING IN CRUISER, POLICE SAY
By Roman J. Uschak

NorthJersey.com
September 26, 2013

A Belleville police officer has been suspended after he was caught sleeping in a police cruiser in a Bloomfield parking lot, police said.

A video of the officer appeared on the popular site YouTube as well as CNN iReport. "Our tax dollars at work, gotta love it!" states the video's text.

The officer was identified as Jesse McKeough. McKeough, a recent police academy graduate, has since been suspended, although the duration of the suspension is not known.

He was photographed sleeping between 5 and 6 a.m. on Sept. 9 in the Stop & Shop parking lot on Franklin Street near Belleville's First Ward, right on the border between Bloomfield and Belleville, according to Belleville Police Chief Joseph Rotonda. The store's address is Bloomfield, according to Stop & Shop's website, and that particular store is open from 6 a.m. to midnight daily.

McKeough was working an off-duty, part-time security job, according to Rotonda, and was permitted to wear his uniform and use a police cruiser. However, the police chief said that off-duty officers are still subject to departmental rules and regulations just like on-duty officers are.

"We don't condone it," Rotonda said of the officer's action.

He added that the department was proactive in the matter, even though there had been no complaints made to police about it.

"We took immediate, decisive action," he said.

The video posted on YouTube was taken by 27-year-old Anthony Telinski, according to The Star-Ledger. Telinksi could not immediately be reached for comment.

According to a police blotter published in the Times, he was arrested Sept. 10, the day after he photographed the officer, on Franklin Avenue for possession of heroin.