The judgment reducing the penalty from five days' pay to one day's pay on each charge, though an understandable reflection of the Appellate Division's concern with the mitigating circumstances surrounding the respondent police officer's absence from his post, unwarrantedly interfered with the police commissioner's exercise of his considered judgment. It cannot be said that the discipline imposed was "so disproportionate...
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