Post by bohica9 on Sept 30, 2014 9:33:35 GMT -5
Fat cops forced to pay for gym equipment
By Jamie Schram, Kevin Sheehan and Bruce Golding
September 29, 2014 | 10:50pm
A waddling group of NYPD officers has gotten so out of shape that their commander forced them to chip in for a room full of exercise equipment to shed some pounds, The Post has learned.
Some officers at the Community Affairs Division have ballooned to obese proportions — and are in no condition to ever chase down a suspect if called upon to do so, sources said.
“They are mostly all pathetically fat,” a source said. “They get heavy on the job . . . There’s a lot of sitting around and eating Twinkies at your desk.”
To fight the fat, Inspector Ellen Chang — a triathlete — ordered her chunky charges to pony up $30 each to outfit their East 12th Street headquarters with a stationary bike, a treadmill, a StairMaster and 350 pounds of free weights, the sources said.
Some officers are dreading the thought of exercise and have described Chang’s plan as “bulls–t.” But the inspector is not backing down, regularly telling the obese officers, “You guys could stand to work out more” and “You should really hit a gym,” the sources said.
The Community Affairs Division handles police relations with various community groups but doesn’t demand any physical work from the approximately 30 cops assigned there.
On Monday, a Post reporter spotted one overweight Community Affairs officer entering the building carrying a bag from Dunkin’ Donuts.
Another heavyset cop said he hated Chang’s plan and complained about being forced to fund the fitness regimen.
“It’s not right that we’ve gotta pay for something she wants,” he said. “And if you say, ‘No,’ you get told, ‘You could use the exercise.’ ”
Chang, who has a solid and powerful physique didn’t deny trying to tone up her underlings.
“I’ve done two half-triathlons and run in three marathons here in the city, so I wanted to get the guys and gals here motivated and have some equipment on site for them,” she said.
Chang also said she thought her weight-loss program was “going well,” adding, “I don’t think there was any resistance at all.”
But she denied that cops had to donate any cash toward her fitness program, saying she used money from the NYPD’s “reserve fund” and got a piece of used gear from “the guy who runs the gym at headquarters downtown.”
“I actually kicked in money from my own pocket,” she said.
By Jamie Schram, Kevin Sheehan and Bruce Golding
September 29, 2014 | 10:50pm
A waddling group of NYPD officers has gotten so out of shape that their commander forced them to chip in for a room full of exercise equipment to shed some pounds, The Post has learned.
Some officers at the Community Affairs Division have ballooned to obese proportions — and are in no condition to ever chase down a suspect if called upon to do so, sources said.
“They are mostly all pathetically fat,” a source said. “They get heavy on the job . . . There’s a lot of sitting around and eating Twinkies at your desk.”
To fight the fat, Inspector Ellen Chang — a triathlete — ordered her chunky charges to pony up $30 each to outfit their East 12th Street headquarters with a stationary bike, a treadmill, a StairMaster and 350 pounds of free weights, the sources said.
Some officers are dreading the thought of exercise and have described Chang’s plan as “bulls–t.” But the inspector is not backing down, regularly telling the obese officers, “You guys could stand to work out more” and “You should really hit a gym,” the sources said.
The Community Affairs Division handles police relations with various community groups but doesn’t demand any physical work from the approximately 30 cops assigned there.
On Monday, a Post reporter spotted one overweight Community Affairs officer entering the building carrying a bag from Dunkin’ Donuts.
Another heavyset cop said he hated Chang’s plan and complained about being forced to fund the fitness regimen.
“It’s not right that we’ve gotta pay for something she wants,” he said. “And if you say, ‘No,’ you get told, ‘You could use the exercise.’ ”
Chang, who has a solid and powerful physique didn’t deny trying to tone up her underlings.
“I’ve done two half-triathlons and run in three marathons here in the city, so I wanted to get the guys and gals here motivated and have some equipment on site for them,” she said.
Chang also said she thought her weight-loss program was “going well,” adding, “I don’t think there was any resistance at all.”
But she denied that cops had to donate any cash toward her fitness program, saying she used money from the NYPD’s “reserve fund” and got a piece of used gear from “the guy who runs the gym at headquarters downtown.”
“I actually kicked in money from my own pocket,” she said.
