Former Chief of Police going back to work after resigning over PTSD

Randy Scott has a new job after resigning as Chief of Police because of PTSD and I think it is a wonderful thing. Goes to show how much attitudes have changed. Just because they have PTSD that does not mean they are broken.

As I listened to the reporters talking about this, they seemed to think that PTSD is new, but it isn't. They seem to think that just because Scott has PTSD caused by his job, he cannot do the same job, but they fail to understand military men and women do it all the time. They go back into combat with PTSD. The same job that caused it in the first place. If they get the proper help, they heal. If they are healing and are able to stay on their jobs, then they heal better. If they are allowed to be able to go on serving others, they are much happier. Few citizens can understand this because few citizens are willing to risk their lives for someone else.

Former CPD Chief Randy Scott hired at Richland Co. Sheriff's Dept
WISTV.com
Posted: May 01, 2013
By Jeremy Turnage
By Jack Kuenzie

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS)
Only eight days after he tearfully resigned as chief of the Columbia Police Department citing a battle with post-traumatic stress disorder, Randy Scott has resurfaced in a position at the Richland County Sheriff's Department.

"So, they call it PTSD," said Scott. "You can call it stress, but I have to call it what it is and it was something that was tearing me apart for a very long time."

Scott will be known as an "Inspector" with the Sheriff's Department, and he will be paid around $40,000 a year. According to officials, that job will be equivalent to a regular deputy who answers to a captain.

This will be Scott's second time with the Sheriff's Department. He previously spent 15 years there before being hired as CPD's chief.

Sheriff Leon Lott says hiring Scott again gives the sheriff the opportunity to take advantage of Scott's experience at the Police Department.

"He's got a lot to give here," said Lott. "We're going to have him as a community liaison. He's great with the community, he's going to community meetings -- he'll be doing a lot of that. He's also going to help us develop our leadership training. I think he'll be able to take it to a different level."
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