Time for Some Accountability

Hey "Consent Decree" people - how about firing some of these medical abusers?

• Recently, there was a disabled sergeant on the Police Pension Fund agenda who is in danger of losing her benefits. Let me be clear she is not above everyone else. Every officer receiving disability benefits is required to attend an annual physical examination, yet she refuses to comply.
  
  What’s even more troubling is that the injury she is now claiming is not the same injury for which she originally received disability. Her original injuries had healed. Now she claims she cannot see the Pension Board’s doctor because it gives her PTSD.
  
  This is exactly the kind of behavior that undermines the system for officers who are legitimately injured. Meanwhile, as mentioned in the post above, there are officers on no-pay status who are clearly not fit for duty and are struggling through the proper process. Situations like this damage the credibility of the disability system for everyone else.
  
  If someone is deliberately abusing the system, there should be consequences. Cases like this should be investigated thoroughly, and if wrongdoing is found, appropriate charges and legal action should follow. Pay back the Fund. 

A few years ago there was a concerted effort to have a Medical Integrity Unit to investigate abuse. It rapidly went away due to "demographic" revelations about exactly who was abusing the medical and at what rates.

People like this are going to lose the Medical Roll for others who truly need it.