Cleveland police chief warns officers to focus on duties

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland’s police chief has scolded officers to pay attention to their work after an embarrassing incident in which two patrolmen mistook a woman’s body for a deer carcass.

Chief Michael McGrath wrote in a memo read to the ranks that any officer who isn’t committed should think about a different career.

The memo didn’t specify any shortcomings, but came just days after two officers on a radio call mistook a homicide victim’s body as a deer carcass.

Patrolmen’s union president Steve Loomis calls the memo demoralizing and a knee-jerk reaction to the political climate.