Post by Prosay on Dec 24, 2017 11:21:39 GMT -5
After 20, the pension is yours regardless.
True, but if they want to "get you," they can.
If the "permission of the Police Commissioner" is not forthcoming, two things can happen: they can hold up your retirement and keep you on the job to face in-house penalties for whatever malfeasance they want to get you on. The penalties may be relatively severe, like a long-term suspension and massive fine, which would keep you on the job longer.
Now if you decide to say, "fuck them..." and walk out the door to await the processing of the paperwork for the pension...that, too, may be a long wait, or may not come at all. The first day you don't show up for work, you're AWOL, and awaiting charges and specs for that.
The fact that there is now a law "protecting" the pension does not mean you can burn the bridges behind you after you get caught doing something they don't like. This sergeant will probably be lucky: Delatorre probably walked this guy's paperwork through the system personally to get him out on good terms (after all, maybe this guy knows things about Delatorre that ol' Eddie doesn't want too many people to know....!).