{"id":260446,"date":"2020-11-17T13:15:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T12:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=260446"},"modified":"2020-11-17T13:16:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T12:16:06","slug":"officer-could-be-dismissed-for-swapping-barcode-on-donuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/officer-could-be-dismissed-for-swapping-barcode-on-donuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer Could Be Dismissed For Swapping Barcode On Donuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A police officer is at serious risk of dismissal after he was caught swapping the barcode from 7p carrots onto a almost \u00a310 box of donuts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_260447\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260447\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-260447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/60DE9B63-51CE-4D89-8E4C-4E564DDFDA99-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/60DE9B63-51CE-4D89-8E4C-4E564DDFDA99-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/60DE9B63-51CE-4D89-8E4C-4E564DDFDA99-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/60DE9B63-51CE-4D89-8E4C-4E564DDFDA99-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/60DE9B63-51CE-4D89-8E4C-4E564DDFDA99.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-260447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He attempted to get some Krispy Kream donuts for cheaper.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PC Simon Read, of Cambridgeshire Police, headed down to a Tesco Extra store in his full uniform and attempted to buy the donuts for 7p by printing a barcode for carrots using a self service checkout, and sticking it on the donut box.<\/p>\n<p>He then attempted to paid for the items, and now, in the eyes of the police force, is\u00a0accused of acting dishonestly and without integrity.<\/p>\n<p>A police document says so that the incident is so \u2018serious that dismissal would be justified.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The report read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honesty &amp; Integrity: &#8220;On February 10, 2020 you breached the Standard of Professional Behaviour concerning Honesty &amp; Integrity because you acted dishonestly and without integrity by knowingly paying \u00a30.07 for 12 donuts when you knew that you should have paid \u00a39.95.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Discreditable Conduct: &#8220;Your behaviour on February 10, 2020 brings discredit upon the police service and undermines confidence in it because a reasonable member of the public, aware of all the facts, would be justifiably appalled that a police officer had acted dishonestly and without integrity.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The two day reading, which will ultimately decide his future in the Police force, is set to take place on the 25th of November this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer is at serious risk of dismissal after he was caught swapping the barcode from 7p carrots onto a almost \u00a310 box of donuts.\u00a0 PC Simon Read, of Cambridgeshire Police, headed down to a Tesco Extra store in his full uniform and attempted to buy the donuts for 7p by printing a barcode&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":260447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71,101,43],"class_list":["post-260446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260448,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260446\/revisions\/260448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}