State ex rel. Bendo v. Board of Trustees of the Police Relief & Pension Fund

The question presented is whether a member of a police department, who while holding a civil service rank of patrolman is assigned, pursuant to a city ordinance, to a special detail by the chief of police at a higher salary than that of patrolman, from which higher salary correspondingly increased payments to the police pension fund are withhheld, is upon retirement while on such detail entitled to a pension based upon his increased compensation, even though such special detail is not a position or rank higher than that of patrolman under the civil service laws of the state.

It is clear that…