Unprofessional conduct from a workplace director?

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My son was arrested at his place of work a few months back for a quite minor offence but the issue my son had was not with the police officer arresting him but with the director for getting involved and basically asking my son several times where his mobile phone was knowing full well the officer was going to take his possessions such as car keys and mobile phone. Surely this should have been the job of the police officer to ask him or to search for his mobile phone and not the director of a workplace? This so called director also put more effort in to looking for the mobile phone than the actual police officer did. Does my son have a point and if so is there anything he can do?

If the police were going to ask anyway what difference would it make?

Ime when we have arrests of staff (hospital setting and doesn’t happen often) there’s a procedure and police usually contact company first. They may have set out they will need the mobile phone so director was trying to be helpful.

I can’t help thinking you’re focusing on the wrong thing. It may well be minor but the majority of us have never been arrested!

Was it a work mobile? Or did it contain sensitive work related data?

Frankly I think you’ve got your priorities wrong if you are worried about the director’s behaviour in this situation rather than your son being arrested.

Eh?

Why is he focussing on this minor inconsequential thing? 😳

This cannot be real? Your son was arrested at his place of work and your concern is a director asking where his phone is?

Does the director suspect/know there is something incriminating on his phone? Could this be a possibility?

Why is this your worry?!

Because he had hidden his mobile phone from them as he knows full well that once they take your phone and seize it they take forever to return it. My view is let the police do the job and search for it themselves rather than some jumped up little director being aggressive and acting like he’s the police officer?

Really??? Is this genuine?

Really not what you should be focussing on OP

You are focusing on the wrong thing here - you minimised this 'minor' offence - getting arrested is not minor. And instead of cooperating with the police your son hid his phone as 'he knows full well that once they take your phone and seize it they take forever to return it' - he's been arrested more than once then?

You are directing your anger towards the director, when instead you should be looking much closer to home. It sounds like the director was assisting the police - unlike your son who was being obstructive. Again, you should look closer to home if you want to vent your anger on someone. And it's not the director.

I don’t really know what you would want the outcome to be here regardless?

Your son is likely to be dismissed, especially if charged.

Whether or not the director should have been involved isn’t going to make any difference here.

where was this energy when you were supposed to be teaching your son right from wrong?

Btw, if your son is innocent then his phone might have evidence on there to prove that, so in the grand scheme who cares about it taking a while to be returned.

Yeah sue the bastard 🙄 are you bored tonight OP?

How minor of an offence do you consider minor? I wouldn’t worry about the director of a company… worry more about your son who’s likely about to lose his job and potentially get a criminal record at the same time?

Hmm. Or is it more likely the director knew the phone contained some evidence? And your son hid it because it has evidence?

You think your kid ought to have hidden his mobile from the POLICE ???? What the fuck ?

Oh my God the second post from Op is unreal!

Your son seems to have good knowledge of what happens when you are arrested. Maybe he needs to concentrate on not doing anything that leads to being arrested rather than worrying about this.

Op. Your son is going to be fired regardless . Exactly what come back do you think your son should have. It's clear there was incriminating evidence on the phone so I think I'd focus on the fact that my son was committing a serious enough offence to get arrested for .. maybe that's just me

You’re focusing on the wrong thing.

I imagine the director probably wanted to bring the disruptive incident of police arresting an employee to a close as quickly as possible. It isn’t great optics for any business to have police onsite for this reason. He was probably trying to speed things up or avoid unnecessary delays cause by police needing to search and in doing so, move around the building, potentially disrupting more people.

I’m wondering if you are thinking that it was ‘none of the directors business’ and he shouldn’t have got involved. However, it was the directors business, literally.

Your son did himself no favours in trying to hide his phone knowing police wanted it. This isn’t the sort of behaviour that would lead an employer to support a return to work if charges were dropped or if found not guilty. Miscarriages of justice happen, but failure to comply with police when under arrest isn’t going to help.

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The director's behaviour as reported was not remotely unprofessional. It was exactly what I would expect a director to do unless he was an accomplice of the person being arrested. Referring to him as a "so called director" says a lot about your attitude. Your son does not have a point. There is nothing he can do.

Breathtakingly off the mark

I think your little prince need to face to consequences of his actions

a police arrest in the workplace is very disruptive they would of wanted it over and done with ASAP so sooner they got the phone sooner they were out