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Bethlehem, Pa., Police Officer Richard Hoffman has gone from being dismissed for a DUI charge, to being ordered reinstated, to now being ruled an alcoholic who is unfit to return to duty. Now, he's suing the city.

(via LehighValleyLive.com)

It is enough to make a cop's head spin: A police officer in Bethlehem, Pa., has gone from being dismissed for a DUI charge, to being ordered reinstated, to now being ruled an alcoholic who is unfit to return to duty by a department expert.

As a result, the officer is suing the city, according to our sister website, LehighValleyLive.com.

The City of Bethlehem is basing its decision not to reinstate the officer on a forensic psychologist's opinion that brands Officer Richard Hoffman as "an alcoholic who cannot perform his duties as a police officer," the website writes.

However, the officer's lawsuit against the city counters that Hoffman is neither an alcoholic, nor a recovering alcoholic, and has never received a medical diagnosis as such.

But even if the city regards Hoffman as a recovering alcoholic, which he denies, the city should consider him as a person with a disability covered under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the news website quotes the suit as saying.

Background from LehighValleyLive:

Hoffman was charged with drunken driving after crashing into a parked vehicle and damaging two others in August 2013 in the city. His blood-alcohol content was 0.16, according to authorities.

Hoffman was accepted into a first-time offender's program and the DUI was erased from his criminal record.

Bethlehem City Council voted unanimously in March 2014 to fire Hoffman, but an arbitrator ruled last year that the city only had cause to discipline him, not fire him.

According to Hoffman's suit, the arbitrator ruled the city could only discipline him with a 25-day suspension. Hoffman was to be reinstated, but the city had the right to require Hoffman to submit, and successfully complete, a fitness-for-duty evaluation.

So should this cop get his job back?

Tell us why or why not in the comments.