Detroit Free Press
DETROIT — By anyone’s account, it isn’t a pretty picture: a uniformed Detroit police officer appears to be asleep, his mouth agape, sitting in what is apparently the driver’s seat of a squad car.
The image was posted over the weekend on www.mediatakeout.com, and, according to the site’s traffic counter, it’s been viewed more than 400,000 times. Among the viewers? The officer’s bosses.
“We were made aware of the photo over the weekend and began investigating immediately,” Detroit Police Spokesman John Roach said today. “As of this morning, we’ve identified the officer, we know who he is. We have not yet had an opportunity to interview him directly, but we will as soon as possible.”
Roach declined to release the officer’s name but said he works as a patrolman in the city’s 8th Precinct. Roach said police are investigating whether the officer was on duty and not on a break when the photo was shot.
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