Officer Mott ends sick leave, resigns

Police Officer Raymond Mott, whose discipline by Chief Ronald Dies wound up before the Fire and Police Civil Service Board, has resigned.
In January of this year, Mott appealed the chief’s ruling prohibiting him and another officer from working a security detail at the Sunrise of Eunice apartment complex, where he at the time resided.
The officer claimed Dies’ action was retaliation after the City Council last September refused to fire them on the chief’s recommendation.
The civil service unit reversed Dies’ decision, but Mott never returned to work, continuing sick leave which he had initiated in November 2013.
The nature of his illness was not revealed, falling under privacy protections.
Mott resigned in August, records show.