Yeah, really.
Shoot somebody dead -- can get up to a month off (sort-of like a paid vacation).
Go to church in uniform on a particularly "special" church-day (carrying a radio--being on "stand-by", on-call) get suspended for ten days? What's up with that?
The comparison is jarring, to say the least.
It's not like the guy took off and went bass fishing, or went to putter around in a home workshop making cabinetry, or what-have-you.
Would it be like donut shoppery?