Burnt bodies & suicides – officer conceals PTSD, refuses counselling: awarded $1.4 mil

An appeal court has cleared a major injury compensation payment to a crack-hardy police constable whose superiors neglected to monitor her known PTSD condition during the four years after a return-to-work medical made the monitoring recommendation. Constable Melanie Sills had joined the force in May 2003 at age 26. When her GP diagnosed the condition … Continue reading Burnt bodies & suicides – officer conceals PTSD, refuses counselling: awarded $1.4 mil