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?

Well if he was arrested at work I'm surprised if the director wouldn't sack him on the spot. It isn't a great look for the company is it?

He needs to stop getting accused of criminal offences rather than getting shirty that his boss aided the police.

I think it’s more unprofessional to get arrested at your place of work to be honest.

The director possibly wanted the arrest to be quick and as undisruptive as possible and that's why they wanted the mobile located quickly.
The director wouldn't want police searching, disrupting other workers etc.

It's odd your focus is on the director. You might not like what they did but they didn't do anything wrong.

The director doesn't want the police turning over the whole office/site/etc and it is exactly what I would do.

What is your son accused of?

so someone trying to help your son is in the wrong and someone arresting your son is in the wrong but your son being arrested is on e hundred percent in the right wtf

Why are you referring to him as a "so-called director"?

And what exactly is your son's point?

I imagine that the director was keen to co-operate with the police and to minimise disruption to the workplace and other staff.

Has your son been charged? Dismissed from his job?

You need to request to see the policy regarding "Arrested at work" and see if the director followed procedure 🙄

Police can obtain a warrant to search your place of work, or they can obtain permission from a relevant person such as the business owner or a manager. In this case, the company director was doing the sensible thing in assisting the police in doing their job, and preventing further disruption to the business caused by them returning with a warrant and turning the whole place upside down looking for the phone.

Worth pointing out that arresting someone at work is rarely a first option; it's usually done when that person has proved difficult to track down in the past, where there's a potential public safety issue.

I expect this isn't the first time your son has had dealing with the police.

Surely you should be more concerned about what your son is doing to get arrested than something which is neither here nor there from a director. How embarrassing to get get arrested at work- surely you both feeling he’s humiliating himself?

I'm highly sceptical that the police would arrest someone at their place of work for a "minor offence."

The director has a responsibility to his other staff and organisation. He is trying to bring a difficult situation to a close as quickly as possible. Your son is completely in the wrong and the director is completely in the right here.

Are you serious? This has to be a wind up. You think your son hiding his phone from the police isn't going to make things even worse for him?

If he’s getting arrested at work he’s got bigger things to worry about tbh.

I feel for you OP. Whatever your son has or hasn't done, you are his mum.
I understand your upset and anger (from experience).
Please take care

Getting arrested at work probably wins top trumps for unprofessional conduct.

Unprofessional conduct from worker? I think your son was quite unprofessional!

I'm going to assume that the director believed there was evidence on the phone and wanted to make sure that the police had it. The fact that your son had hidden it speaks volumes. It's not even slightly unprofessional, unlike your attitude which, frankly, stinks.
Having recently experienced a police officer decide NFA on an incident without bothering to search for easily obtainable evidence, I can't say I blame the director.

So he knows full well that it takes ages for the police to return a seized phone...

Been arrested before, has he?

I'm not I'd share the OP's view her son was arrested for a "quite minor offence" tbh.

This one can’t be real 😂

Yes, definitely the director of a company is the one at fault for your son’s arrest and attempt to conceal evidence. Defo doesn’t reflect badly on him or you. Definitely the director.

What did your son do OP?

When I was arrested they returned my phone to me when I was released from the station. I think your sons telling you fibs and he hid it because there’s incriminating evidence on it

I'm going to assume that the director believed there was evidence on the phone and wanted to make sure that the police had it.

More likely he'd been told that if they didn't get the phone willingly, he'd be in the position of either agreeing to a search or waiting for them to come back with a warrant, which could mean the entire office being turned over.

Are you for real? I'd rather the staff member hand over the phone rather than the police searching and making a mess of my businesses premises