Helping someone out isn’t as important as keeping your supervisor informed where you are, apparently!
Check out this story about one officer trying to help others from the AP:
>>Cop Fired After Helping Fellow Officer In Distress
It was a Saturday on campus when David Sedmak, a Rice University police officer, heard “Officer down, officer down!” on his scanner: Two members of the Houston Police Department had been shot downtown. Sedmak rushed to the scene to help his fellow officers.
But Rice didn’t see Sedmak as a hero. Instead, the university fired him, citing “dereliction of duty.”
The university said in a statement that its officers often assist other law enforcement agencies when the need arises. But Sedmak erred, it said, by not informing the university police dispatcher about where he was.