A London Police officer has offered to forfeit 24 hours of pay as punishment after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to neglect of duty in connection to a January 2017 incident where he left work early without completing his duties and without his supervisor's permission.

Const. Wesley Reeves appeared Tuesday before a police disciplinary hearing at London Police headquarters Tuesday, where a charge of misconduct by deceit stemming from the same January 2017 incident was also withdrawn.

Hearing officer Robert Fitches told the hearing that he would reserve his written decision on the case until next week.

Reeves apologized to the disciplinary hearing through his lawyer and said he accepts responsibility for his actions.

Reeves still faces unrelated criminal charges

However, the 32-year-old police officer still faces a number of unrelated criminal charges, including assault, mischief under $5,000, criminal harassment, uttering threats and intercepting a private communication.

"Today Const. Reeves dealt with an administrative infraction and he's excited to move forward from this event. We have no comment concerning the criminal charges before the courts, but we will continue to vigorously fight to maintain Const. Reeves' innocence," Reeves' lawyer Janessa Plaine said outside the hearing room Tuesday.

According to the agreed statement of facts in the case, Reeves was reassigned from his uniformed patrol duties on Jan. 30, 2017 after he failed his required pistol requalification twice.

The next morning Reeves was assigned to work front desk reception at London Police headquarters. However a supervisor noticed he wasn't at his post and had to go looking for him.

Reeves offers to forfeit pay

Later that morning, Reeves told a supervisor he was no longer needed at his post and asked if he could use some of his accumulated time off to go home for the day.

A copy of the agreed statement of facts obtained by CBC News at the hearing states that when Reeves was asked whether he completed his duties, he promised a supervisor he would before he left work.

By the afternoon, Reeves' supervisor began making inquiries as to why he was not at his post, since he didn't have permission to leave.

A subsequent investigation found that Reeves had not completed his work before he left for the day.

At the Tuesday hearing Reeves offered to forfeit 24 hours pay as a punishment for the misconduct, to which Jason Fraser, the lawyer representing the London Police Service, agreed was appropriate.

"Obviously the London Police Service considers this to be sufficiently serious enough to warrant a hearing," he said. "The front desk of this building is the public face of this organization from people who attend headquarters so when a member decides to leave the front desk short staffed that has an effect on this police service."

A written decision in Reeves's misconduct hearing is expected to be issued by the arbitrator next week.