(Herald DB)
A South Korean court docket sided with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Company’s choice to punish a police officer for repeatedly ordering subordinates to run private errands and denying them trip go away.
Judges within the Seoul Administrative Court docket on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the officer, who sought to overturn a disciplinary motion imposed by the police company in December 2022. The police company handed down a punishment of a two-month pay discount, after the officer was discovered to have violated the Civil Servants Act, which mandates integrity {and professional} conduct.
An investigation revealed that the officer gave orders to subordinates to run numerous private errands on not less than 9 events. They embody shopping for lottery tickets from a particular comfort retailer identified for having many first-prize winners, even when the subordinate instructed him that queueing would take over half-hour. The officer additionally ordered a junior worker to choose up his dry cleansing and purchase cigarettes for him.
In one other occasion the officer was discovered to have denied a trip go away request by a subordinate, as a result of the request wasn’t made in individual prematurely. The officer can be accused of constructing threatening remarks to a colleague when complaints in opposition to him had been reported to senior administration.
The officer argued that the errands had been performed voluntarily and that he didn’t restricted trip time.
However the court docket dominated that his actions constituted an abuse of energy and that the officer’s orders had been outdoors the scope of his duties and unrelated to his official obligations. The court docket additionally mentioned the disciplinary motion was justified, describing the officer’s actions as “office harassment” that would trigger psychological misery.