Cop Fired For Responding to Officer Down Call

"Bump" SkoolCop49...I am of the same thinking that perhaps Houston PD will offer him a position.

Another shame of this situation is that this has not been reported at all in the liberal media, I've only seen it here on PL. Durring this time when it seems that most with badges atre walking bulseye for the bad guys there should be much more outrage of the situation and support of this officer who did what no civilian would do....run towards the fight! Support our Officers, support each other!

Armchair supervisors....not surprising. All I can say is yeah, he should have told dispatch and/or his supervisor he was leaving his area BUT no matter what was in his personnel file prior to that day firing him was obviously not the right thing to do. I would guess his Chief or someone else in upper management had prior issues with him and let the personality conflict interfere with proper decision making. I had a Lt. like this once. He had a personality disorder where he felt inferior to those who refused to fear his intimidation tactics, etc. Called him out on it one day and asked to see the Captain to settle it. Since he knew his B.S. was baseless, he yelled me out of his office and that was the end of it.........years later, after I left that PD (like many others) I heard he almost got fired for sexually harassing a female dispatcher in the station. Comes around goes around I always say.

Ya it is a shame that you have chief's like this that will not back his people up. And I saw someone put on here that Officer Sedmak works with three other Officer's and just where the hell were they when the call come out. I work in a town that has a university right in the middle of it and there has been a many of calls that we were glad that the university guys showed up. And also where Officer Sedmak was suppose to give his Sgt. a heads up that he was leaving campus to go and help a downed Officer. The Sgt. or Superviser aught to be looked at cause if it took him an hour to relize that one of his guys was not on campus then right there is a problem. Eitherway it come to it that Officer Sedmak should be congratulated on a job well done going to the aid of fallen Officers instead of fired. Officer Sedmak is a hero in my book.

Keep your head up, Ofc Sedmak! We support you! Good to see Houston PD supporting him too.

While his actions may warrant some discipline, firing is rediculous. If he just took off w/o telling anyone, that is officer safety. But like HPD said, use it as a training opportunity.

Before my days of Food Service, I worked for Campus Security/Police at Drew University. A couple of Stolen Bikes, a Drunken student and a tearful girl who takes 4 aspirins for attention would be headlines for the week. Other than checking people in at the Gate, my duties mostly included going off Campus to quick-check for the higher ups. With that said, why do they deem this a dereliction of duties. The mans a hero and should be treated as such. Sheesh.

simple! If I were those other University cops, I'd be looking for a another LEO job! What a negative message that sends. For Rice University to terminate a 17 yr tenured, seasoned veteran is a CRIME! For what its worth I am going to send an email to Rice and express my display and hopefully thousands of other emails will flood Rice's email account !!

Not overly surprising.Probably none of the suits who decided to terminate this officer have ever been shot at or even have an idea what it's like to be in a like situation.Brings to mind the incident in San Fran recently where fire and EMS personell refused to help a suicide/drowning victim and the person died.Their reason was that they had not been trained to assist drowning victims.WTF ! You're trained to be a human being right ? Same difference here. If it ain't in the big book of RuRu don't do it cause your butt's gonna fry.Man,I'm glad I'm retired.I loved the job for a long time but these bean counters have taken over and this is what you get.