Maybe they meant to say broke protocol by having too much cash in the register at the time?(Just guessing? perhaps if Popeye’s had given this manager a gun to protect herself the pricks wouldn’t have been able to steal from her restaurant
more likely meant “broke policy”
still bad writing though. “violated policy” would have been more accurate than “broke policy”, but I suppose we educated folks should give the poor “journalist” a break, after all, “violated” is a REALLY big word, you know, having four syllables and all.
Maybe they meant to say broke protocol...”
Maybe the writer did intend to say protocol but gave up because it was another word on their “don’t know how to spell list” or even the meaning. Writers now seem to run everything from their fingers to spell check without allowing anything to filter through their eyes or brain.
Not saying this is what happened here, but leaving too much cash where it isn't supposed to be, is an old scam. Keeping too much in the till, or 'forgetting' to make bank deposits for a few days as a set-up for a 'robbery'.