In Stuessel v. City of Glendale (1983) 141 Cal. App. 3d 1047, the Glendale Police Department ordered one of its officers, who was in extremely poor physical condition, not to carry a firearm, prohibited him from making arrests, and assigned him to a desk job. The officer sought a disability retirement, citing these restrictions, but the city refused to grant the retirement. ( Id. at pp. 1049-1050.) In upholding the city's decision, the Court of Appeal held that a peace officer employee who retains his classification as a peace officer, maintains the same salary and benefits, and has the same promotional opportunities as other officers, may nevertheless be placed in an assignment where he does not have a right to carry a firearm or make arrests. ( Stuessel, supra, 141 Cal. App. 3d at p. 1051.) The Stuessel court specifically rejected the officer's claim that he had a vested right as a peace officer to carry a firearm and to exercise his peace officer power to arrest. ( Stuessel, supra, 141 Cal. App. 3d at p. 1053.) The court held that "a police officer, as a peace officer, has no fundamental or vested right to carry a firearm or exercise the power to make arrests where, as here, there is a proper medical reason involving his own safety and that of the public for removing those rights." ( Id. at p. 1054.) The court subsequently emphasized that "We expressly conclude that the right to carry a firearm, whether concealed or not, is not a fundamental or vested right of a police officer incapacitated from doing so without danger to that officer or the public." (Ibid.)