In re Gidley

This is a claim based on the provision of the Law Enforcement Officers and Firemen Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 48, par. 281 et seq.), hereinafter referred to as the Act, by a widow of a Chicago police officer.

The question presented is whether the decedent was killed in the line of duty. The facts are undisputed. Claimant is the widow of Chicago police officer Vernon Gidley who died while on duty at 4:55 a.m., on March 26, 1981, of cardiac arrest.

Officer Gidley, at the time of his death, was on duty as a police dispatcher at a 911 emergency dispatch console. The job consisted…