Two extra Los Angeles Police Division officers have been fired for not complying with town’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
In Tuesday’s Police Fee assembly, Assistant Chief Dominic Choi mentioned a complete of three officers have been fired to this point for refusing to get vaccinated. That was after asserting the primary firing of an officer over the mandate on Feb. 8.
In whole, 10 LAPD officers and 4 civilian employees members outright refused to get vaccinated, in response to numbers Choi supplied. The seven remaining officers will quickly get hearings earlier than the division’s Board of Rights that can decide whether or not they get to maintain their jobs.
The variety of disciplined or fired officers and employees might nonetheless go up: 1000's of LAPD workers nonetheless have but to see their vaccine exemptions for spiritual or medical causes reviewed.
For any of these workers who've their exemptions denied, they’d both should get vaccinated or undergo weekly testing. In any other case they’ll be fired.
However the variety of firings stays low, regardless of months of fretting from public officers across the area and threats from anti-vaccine activists over whether or not they’d see a mass exodus of sworn officers from their ranks.